[2] He graduated with an honours degree from the University of Durham in 1963,[3] then decided to visit his father's homeland, Australia.
He worked as a farmhand on his cousin's farm in Broomehill for 2 months before moving to Perth, where he taught English at Guildford Grammar School.
[4] Later, while making a film series about significant communities, he came across the experience of Group Settlers in Denmark, Western Australia in the 1920s.
"[2] He has subsequently worked with Community Arts WA, producing radio features which assist Aboriginal communities to tell their own stories and has also presented VoicePrints for the Perth International Arts Festival' Bunbury's documentary series covered such topics as Cyclone Tracy, Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, and the granting of equal wages to Aboriginal stockmen in 1966.
Journalist Andre Malan has described this as Bunbury's legacy, "a priceless archive of the State's rich oral history that would otherwise have been lost forever".