The Burning Conversation with ABC Big Ideas

Australia has long been The Land of Fire, shaped by tens of millions of years of continental desiccation, wildfire, and the rafting of tectonic plates.

But are we on the cusp of a new, unprecedented Age of Fire?

How can we best prepare to protect people and nature?

And how are decisions made about what to burn, how often and where, in Australia’s annual fuel reduction programs?

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These issues are all part of THE BURNING CONVERSATION now facing us as a nation, as individuals and as connected communities.

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The Royal Society of Victoria has assembled two of Australia’s leading fire ecology and modelling experts to explain the science and the choices that we face in what could be a very different future.

Join us live on Monday 21 September for a compelling conversation moderated by writer and oral historian GREGG BORSCHMANN, for the ABC Radio National Big Ideas program.

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