Life around the world of Australia and Oceania
A day around the world: school, food, homes, games, weather and getting around, in real places.
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School of the Air in Alice Springs, Australia
Alice Springs School of the Air teaches about 100 children who live on cattle stations, in remote communities and in other far-off places across Central Australia. Lessons began over two-way radio in 1951. Today students see their teachers on video over satellite internet.
- Watch Life around the world Te reo Māori in language nests, New Zealand A kōhanga reo, or "language nest," is an early-childhood center in New Zealand where young children are surrounded by te reo Māori, the Māori language, and Māori customs. Families started the first one in 1982 to help the language grow strong again.
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The 800 languages of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country: Ethnologue lists 840 living indigenous languages there in 2026. Most have small communities of speakers. To talk across languages, many people use Tok Pisin, an official language, as well as English and Hiri Motu.
- Watch Life around the world Underground homes of Coober Pedy, Australia Coober Pedy is an opal-mining town in the desert of South Australia, where summer temperatures can reach 52 °C. Many residents live in dugouts, homes carved into the hillsides, where NASA reports the temperature stays at an almost constant 23 °C. Even some churches and hotels are underground.