Skin name: Nangarrij
Clan: Bunij

Charlie is one of the last 'hearers' of Amurdak and considered to have the best knowledge of that language of any living person. Growing up at Jamarldinki (Cape Don) on the Cobourg Peninsula, his first language was Iwaidja and it remains so today.

Charlie was born around 1935 at the lighthouse settlement at Jamarldinki. The last child of Nellie Alabambu of the Yangardi clan, he was adopted by the childless Albert Narrawaju of the Amurdak-speaking Bunij clan, who bestowed upon him his clan affiliation. Charlie grew up in the Cobourg region and the stone country north of Oenpelli, living and working at various European enterprises. His knowledge of the Cobourg region and of his own country, the Mt Borrodaile Bunij estate, is at the highest level. In the 1950s, Charlie moved to Croker Island with his wife Janita Maburduwa (deceased). He is the number one singer of Yanajanak, a song cycle taught to his grandfathers by rock spirits inhabiting Bunij country in the vicinity of Mt Borrodaile.