Charmaine Sellings set up the all-female indigenous fire crew almost 20 years ago (Picture: Australia Women’s Weekly/Getty) An all-female indigenous fire brigade are …
The Modesty Blaise comic strip … In the face of catastrophic fires, Australia’s leaders need to recognize the depth and value of Aboriginal knowledge and incorporate our skills in hazard management. Click on Resources>Historical Accounts> Fires Around Sydney. Indigenous Australians celebrated, hunted, cooked and fought with fire, and used it to manage the land. The West Australian newspaper is under fire for publishing a cartoon which refers to an Indigenous character using an offensive racial slur.. Indigenous communities and archaeologists fear thousands of historic Aboriginal sites and artefacts have been damaged—or destroyed—by fires that have ravaged Australia… Early Settlers in Western Australia. The killing times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront Special report: Shootings, poisonings and children driven off cliffs – this is a record of state-sanctioned slaughter
The incidence of fires in the Australian bush was something widely commented upon by settlers as early as the arrival of the First Fleet, as it was so different from what they were used to in Britain. Global Ideas Australia: Aboriginal protestors defend ancient forest against logging . Restoring Aboriginal fire management to sustain wildlife and plants is sometimes a goal in conservation reserves. Aboriginal Burn-Offs The disruption of Aboriginal fire management has, for example, resulted in loss of the native cypress pine (Callitris intratropica) from savanna landscapes across northern Australia.