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This is a good question and one that requires a much more detailed explanation than can be given here. However, I will simplify my answer as much as possible. If I make any errors, I ask Australia's First People to forgive me - I mean well.

These stories are vitally important to the Aboriginal peoples for many reasons.

1. They are crucial in preserving knowledge essential to survival in Australia's many and varied environments, some of which can at times test the limits of human endurance. Stories detailing the travels of the Dreaming Ancestors act as guides to significant sites including those where water or food can be found in hard times.

2. They preserve the laws laid down by the Ancestors that govern the way people should interact with each other and with the land and the creatures and plants that share it. This is also crucial to survival.

3. The give detailed information about group land boundaries, details set in law in the Dreaming.

4. They are the method by which people determine kinship and "marriage" laws and the way in which food should be shared and apportioned.

5. They are the basis for ceremony.

6. The stories give detailed instructions for travel within the boundaries of a group's land.

7. On another, simpler level, versions of the Dreaming stories teach children why animals and plants grow, behave and live where they do, and they teach what is correct behaviour and what his not.

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