According to Tim Flannery (The Future Eaters), fire is one of the most important forces at work in the Australian environment. Aboriginal people used fire-stick farming to burn vegetation to facilitate hunting and promote the growth of bush potatoes and other edible ground-level plants. In centr...
On the beaches of remote Western Australia, where the sea is the same colour as the sky, the next generation of Aboriginal gameledes (custodians) have reclaimed their heritage and are using tourism to showcase their customs and knowledge to travellers in
never being bigger than they actually need. I have read accounts of both Australian and North American aboriginal people finding ‘white men’s’ fires laughable. Apparently they watched as masses of wood was gathered to light a fire that was so big that the people who built it then...
so fire once kept it back. No stray marauder can do that. It needs determined burning when conditions are right … Eucalypts topping rainforest indicated land people once went to great trouble, working against the country, to clear and keep clear[page 13]. ...
where Indigenous fire-stick farming was practiced, were saved as these fires raged around them. And these ancient forests -- they survived because of seasonal, generational burning, which is an Aboriginal practice of lighting small, slow and cool fires. 00:00 So though wildfi...
“It is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black and yellow aboriginal owners," Roosevelt wrote in his 1889 book The Winning of the West, "and become the heritage of the dominant world races.” Teddy Roosevelt Champion...
A real history of Aboriginal Australians, the first agriculturalists | Bruce Pascoe Indigenous writer and anthologist Bruce Pascoe draws on first-hand accounts from colonial journals to dispel the myth that Aboriginal people were hunters and gatherers and "did nothing with the... Talk What I learn...
Iranian refugee firefighter giving back to a sunburnt country With both political parties insisting on calling asylum seekers who arrive on boats here without visas, ‘illegals’ in spite of international law, it is great to see the news reporting …Continue reading→ ...
Second, Watts believes that even when social influence does exist, it doesn’t spread in the same way that infectious diseases do, adding, “it may not even spread at all”. In a study of online diffusion, Watts and his colleaguesfoundthat “over several different domains—including every vi...
‘I really do truly believe that we make a massive difference to people's social outcomes, I really, really do.’ (CBM5) ‘I have three women who lost babies [removed from parents to care of social services] in the past, I managed, you know, the care they received they were given ...