Aliwa is a Noongar (South West Australian) word which translates as ‘look out, be observant or be aware. Ni means ‘listen, pay attention’. In our Australian landscapes, Aboriginal stories and meanings are hiding in full

view, wherever we walk, wherever we travel, wherever we are. The point in this short article is that as educators we need to be able to see, hear and understand the essence of landscape-embedded stories so that we can teach, show and explain these meanings to our children, students, peers and families. To do this, we need to learn the Aboriginal languages of our own places.