ADI researchers Dr Timothy Neale and Dr Will Smith co-authored Hazard Note 101 with Dr Jess Weir (Western Sydney University), which summarises the findings, recommendations and future direction of the ‘Hazards, culture, and Indigenous communities’ project. 

This project, which began in 2017 and finished in June 2021, was co-led by Deakin and Western Sydney University and based in a $490,000 in grants from the federal Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre (BNHCRC).

The project involved interviews, workshops and ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous and non-indigenous practitioners and policymakers engaged in a range of cultural fire initiatives in southern Australia.

To learn more about this project and to listen to industry insights from a range of practitioners and end users in the emergency management sector, you can read the Hazard Note and watch this new project video produced by Giles Campbell-Wright. 

Over the past 6 months, Neale and Smith have been involved in workshops with Traditional Owners, land and fire agency representatives and others to discuss the research priorities of the BNHCRC’s successor organisation Natural Hazards Research Australia.