A sophisticated knowledge of the night sky allows people to navigate their way across the land and sea, even to places they have never travelled before.
One form of navigation they use is star maps.
It’s how the Kamillaroi and Euahlayi people from Goodooga in north-west New South Wales make journeys close to 600 kilometres in distance.
They use words from songlines that tell them how to navigate, along with star patterns that tell them where things like water holes or turning points are on the route.
One of the star maps takes them to the Bunya Mountains in Wakka Wakka country, Queensland, where a significant festival occurs approximately every three years.
It's known as the Bonye Bonye or Bunya nut festival.
A large number of people from different language groups and tribes meet here.
For the Euahlayi people and neighbouring tribes, this journey takes between four to five weeks travelling on foot.
Only a select few people of the tribe make this trip.
At the festival, ceremony and major trading takes place, as well as the promising of wives which creates political associations with different language groups.
The bunya nuts are also harvested from huge cones that can weigh up to 10kg.