The Dinggu is my example, and it is a good example for the Aboriginal people to follow. We live off the land. But the world is different now. I can grow bananas, mangoes, and cassava. The land is our resource to use.
Food is plentiful and there is much happiness.
When you walk on the beach and feel the sand beneath your feet, when you sing the sacred sings of the ancestors, when birds whisper their message to you and flowers in bloom signal that it is time to hunt the stingray-it brings a new freshness to your life. It gives you new life. This feeling comes from the country-from the spirits in the land and sea. It makes you strong and able to live the right way in accord with the law. When this occurs, we call the land Madarryulngi, the heavenly place.