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Mr Beaky is a little bird with big message and he shares his lesson about Aboriginal identity with children in new book

It's not unusual for budgies to speak a few words but there's something setting this one apart from the rest.

It's not just his large vocabulary of hundreds of words and phrases but also what Mr Beaky's saying, as he travels around Victoria, visiting schools to share snippets of language with Taungurung and Dja Dja Wurrung woman of the Kulin nation, Cassie Leatham.

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