📘 Download eBook (PDF • 6.4MB • approx. 16,000 words) Fire has always been an essential part of life in the Australian landscape, especially for its First Peoples. These people understood the Cool Burning benefits. For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have used “fire as a friend, not a foe” – lighting and managing fires carefully to nurture the land rather than destroy it.…