City Aboriginal - Tom

I'm a Wandarrlung Mara person

who was born at Ngukurr, land of the Ngalakan, Ngandi and Alawa people, and who are my in-laws, and my name is Bungarl, that's me, Bungarl.

I'm very proud of my name, it comes from my clan group which is from my grandmother country in Numbulwar, and this group is Murrongun people, Dhumbal, the Morning Star,

and these are my name, my people.

Sometimes I hear myself mumbling down my corridor, singing these songs, crying about my footsteps, all that sort of thing,

and it only leads back to that country

you know, and here I am in Melbourne.

I know I have to do this, and the sacrifice we have to pay sometimes, to detach yourself

away from your family

to gain education, and when I'm older, and things like that, and I learn, to go back, and hopefully not too late, to share with my people what I've learnt.