Will this flaming argument ever stop?

Vernon Graham
Updated February 3 2021 - 8:11am, first published 7:30am
A COOLER WAY: For thousands of years Indigenous Australians used cultural burning as a tool to reduce fuel loads and manage the vegetation.
A COOLER WAY: For thousands of years Indigenous Australians used cultural burning as a tool to reduce fuel loads and manage the vegetation.

The 17 million hectares or so scorched across Australia during last summer's destructive bushfires should have been enough to finally trigger a new approach to minimise the damage and terror they will continue to cause.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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