The National Indigenous Disaster Resilience gathering on Bundjalung Country this week provided an opportunity for sharing knowledge and healing.
When the conditions and season were right Alice Close's grandfather Lionel Donnelly used to conduct cultural burns on Githabul Country, near Muli Muli and Woodenbong. "The police would lock him up every time he done it, every season he'd get locked up for lighting fires," the Githabul Bundjalung woman told NITV. "He went to jail - they'd let him out the next morning.
" Over the past decade there have been catastrophic wildfires in Canada. "If it was done properly, then cultural burns would be reducing the fuel, improving the habitat for medicine and animals that we hunt and fish," Mr Gilchrist said. "And the spin-off from cultural burning is wildfire mitigation and less fuel for wildfires to get big – areas that are burned have less fuel compared to areas that aren't burned.
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