Many of the recommendations of previous inquiries and reviews have yet to be implemented. What we need is a better fire and land management strategy – not another royal commission.
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Australia devotes countless resources to fighting bushfires, but precious little to examining the main cause - humans.
The convergence of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and virtual reality may offer hope for the way we manage future bushfire disasters.
Feral cats and pigs, mission grass and climate change - in western Arnhem Land, Indigenous rangers are battling many environmental threats. Through painting and performance, they are also telling 'healthy country' stories.
We can manage the risks from bushfires far more effectively if we look at the ways different plant species control the the way the fires burn.
Wildfire makes up about 4% of the greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere each year.
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
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Hon. Assoc. Prof., Fire Ecology and Management, University of Melbourne
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Associate professor/Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Lecturer, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Professor, School of Environment, University of Auckland
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Early Career Research Fellow, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Research Fellow, School of Environment, University of Auckland
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Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University, Honorary Fellow at UoW, University of Wollongong
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Senior Fellow
