Right Country, Right Fire

A podcast by Firesticks, Mulong and The Importance of Campfires, supported by Cape York Natural Resource Management.

Written and produced by Richard Dinnen and recorded at the National Indigenous Fire Workshop 2018.

For tens of thousands of years, fire has been used as a medicine for the earth – the right fire in the right place at the right time can restore environmental balance. The early European settlers brought with them a deep fear of fire, and they actively discouraged Indigenous people from their fire practice. In these podcasts, you will learn how fire is used in what is now called Cultural or Traditional Burning and hear how scientists, farmers and contemporary land managers are beginning to embrace Indigenous fire practice.