A Continuing Presence in Contemporary Victoria

Bunjil remains an actively significant figure in contemporary Kulin nation cultural and political life rather than surviving only as historical or ethnographic record, most visibly reflected in the naming of Melbourne's Bunjil Place cultural centre and other public institutions and landmarks across Victoria that draw on his name and significance with the involvement of Kulin nation communities and traditional owner organisations.

Protection of Bunjil's Shelter and the wider Gariwerd landscape connected to Bunjil and other significant ancestral beings has also been a live focus of joint management arrangements between Parks Victoria and traditional owner groups, reflecting a broader and ongoing pattern in which Aboriginal Australian sacred sites are managed today through active partnership between government bodies and the communities whose Law and connection to country the sites express, rather than treated purely as archaeological heritage disconnected from any living tradition. As with Baiame, this entry presents Bunjil at the level of information the relevant communities have made publicly available, rather than summarising restricted ceremonial content.