Articles by: Mick Bourke

Author Biography:

Mick Bourke is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung man engaged in cultural fire projects including Djandak wi and the Firestick Initiative, and with Bendigo District Aboriginal Men’s Group, Wulumbarra Community Group, and Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.

Changing Fire Imaginaries: Walking together to reap the ethical and practical benefits of cultural burning

If a solution to the problem of fire in contemporary Australian society is to be found, it will not be at a purely technical level but will require a deep cultural and psychic reorientation.