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Smoke rises from a small fire burning on a patch of grass.

A smiling, older Indigenous man in firefighting gear stands in bushland.

"Going back thousands of years, we never had those problems."
An aerial shot of some country where a backburn has taken place.

"Many of those sites have been neglected over the years and for us to bring these places back through the cultural burns means a lot."
Two older Indigenous men stand in front of a table at an event.

A smiling, bearded man in a business shirt stands in front of a brick building.

"To see our Indigenous residents be able to fill those cultural gaps and have the opportunity to reconnect to a part of themselves that may have been repressed for some time was a highlight of the program."
A man in high-vis fire gear conducts a backburn with a small flame-throwing device.

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