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5 April 2025
Planned burns a vital practice in Australian society

EVERY year around this time fire authorities carry out their planned burning regime to manage the landscape via fuel reduction and other burning practices that have long been an activity on the Australian landscape.

Long before European settlement, Indigenous Australians used fire to manage the landscape in what was known as cultural burning.

Now departments such as the CFA and Forest Fire Managemen...

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