"As once our old people, our fathers’ fathers and our mothers’ fathers and our mothers’ brothers and all our kin lived with this Law and passed it on to us, so we now hold this language and this Law for ourselves, for our people. This Law and this language, this language of the Law, we speak together through this, joining together to sit in the Law and live through the Law. And it was long ago that people created all this. Since long ago, we have joined together in the Law and lived together harmoniously.

Law is all encompassing: it not only governs relationships between people but also relates to movement—where to go at particular times and when and where to burn the Country. We would communicate with one another about who was going where; we would visit one another, going to and fro. This was how we lived before, with the old people communicating with one another, all living together under one Law. We had one Law, and this meant that we grew up together. That Law nurtured us, and we saw this and practiced it continually. The work of looking after Country was guided by Law."

– YINIMALA GUMANA