GoguljarYok Production Company

Noongar Bedtime Stories

Screenshot from Marlu Man. Shows Marlu Man in a kangaroo skin mask holding a hammer pointed towards the camera.

First Nations Bedtime Stories returned for its fifth year, an annual week of storytelling by Common Ground. It brings Dreaming stories as old as time into homes and classrooms across Australia. Every year Common Ground worlds with different First Nations communities to film five non-secret Dreaming stories, told by Elders and Knowledge Custodians. This year the stories are from Noongar Country (Western Australia). Common Ground collaborated with filmmaking duo Brooke Collard (Ballardong and Whadjuk Noongar woman) and Gary Hamaguchi (Jaru, Noongar and Japanese man) to bring these stories to our screens.