In 2004, Justice Jeffrey Spender, a Federal Court judge, in analyzing Djabugay land claims in terms of Australian legislation regarding native title, touched on the concept of "bulurru" and affirmed that for them the geomorphic features of the area affirm the truth of the laws instituted by the dreamtime, and are taken as tangible proof of bulurru and the totemic beings in Djabugay country. It followed that the physical landscape, its "storyplaces" and "storywaters" in bulurru tradition underline the 'inalienable connection between the native claimants, their ancestral beings and the land.