Brukunga Community Association Inc. acknowledges the importance that Brukunga holds for many First Peoples of Australia.
In the Tjirbruki Dreaming, when Tjirbruki was overcome with sadness and decided he no longer wished to live as a man, his spirit became a bird, the Tjirbruki (a glossy ibis), and his body became a martowalan (memorial) in the form of an outcrop of iron pyrites at Barrukungga - the place of hidden fire (Brukunga).