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Country in Flames

Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on biodiversity and fire in North Australia

Edited by Deborah Bird Rose

Biodiversity Series, Paper No. 3
Biodiversity Unit

Published jointly by the Biodiversity Unit, Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories and the North Australia Research Unit, The Australian National University.

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Contents

• Foreword
  HC Coombs
• Introduction
  Deborah Bird Rose
• Welcome address
  Wali Fejo
• Mindjongork: legacy of the firestick
  Rhys Jones
• Fire, people, landscapes and wilderness: some thoughts of North Australia
  Tony Press
• Fire: emotion and politics: a Yanyuwa case study
  John Bradley
• Bushfires Council, the community and you
  Russell Anderson
• Fire management in the Northern Territory post-Mabo: the legal basis for Aboriginal burning
  Camilla Hughes
• Discussion 1
• Poem: Firestick Farming
• Mark O'Connor
• Burn grass
  April Bright
• Fire in the Kimberley
  Patrick Green
• Fire in Arnhem Land
  Joe Yunupingu
• Discussion 2
• A tropical Queensland perspective
  Peter Stanton
• Fire in the desert: increasing biodiversity in the short term, decreasing it in the long term
  Peter Latz
• We like our lizards frilled not grilled! The short-term effects of fire on frillneck lizards in the Top End
  Tony Griffiths
• A healthy savanna, endangered mammals and Aboriginal burning
  RW Braithwaite
• Why the skillful use of fire is critical for the management of biodiversity in Northern Australia
  David Bowman
• Discussion 3
• Final discussion
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
  

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