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Deep Time History of Australia: Land Management

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What can we learn from indigenous Australians and their 60,000 years caring for country? Visit remote parts of Northern Territory to see the catastrophic impact of climate change and how we can work together to protect it.

Six months after the Tathra bushfire, a pioneering cultural burning project is reveals how traditional Indigenous fire can heal and protect the landscape

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The program looks at some of the detail of life in the Eora nation. People of the Eora nation lived in the areas where white settlement in Australia began. We see how there were many different Aboriginal nations in Australia. Each Aboriginal country knew where its borders were and there were strict rules about entering another country.

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NSW's Rural Fire Service has now started preparing for bushfire season with burn-off's in the southern Highlands. Burn-offs are designed to help prevent serious fires during summer. But did you know it's something that Australia's Indigenous people have done for thousands of years?

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The First Inventors series

An estimated 37,000 years ago the Budj Bim volcano erupted on Gunditjmara Country located in southwest of Victoria, creating volcanic channels throughout the landscape. Western Science has proven what the local Gunditjmara people have known through oral history to be true, that their people used the lava of the eruption to domesticate the landscape. By hand building extensive aquaculture, they managed water flow in order to trap, store and harvest eels (kooyong) during wet winter spells. Once the eels were trapped, they were smoked and used to trade throughout the rest of the year with other Aboriginal people. Today it is one of the oldest and most extensive aquaculture systems in the world

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Gunditjmara Elder Daryl Rose and Tyson Lovett Murray work with Mappers from the Melbourne University to discover the full extent of the Budj Bim canals and weirs. Using LiDAR lasers, an ancient stone settlement is revealed under 150 years of growth. This lost world is 2km long with canals feeding into storage pockets which initially was thought to only be 300m in length. A team of scientists use drone, robot and the LiDAR lasers to reveal the remains of hundreds of stone huts hidden under the growth too, suggesting that the Gunditjmara were not nomadic but rather they had seasonal dwellings at Bidj Bim and did so for close to 7,000years.

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Historian Carla Pascoe explores the unique relationship that Aboriginal Australians have with the land. Their strong spiritual ties to the land can be seen in various sacred places such as Uluru, Arnhem Land, initiation and burial sites. Their relationship with the land was one of mutual dependence, evidenced by their sustainable conservation practices that we still see in use today.

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Water Management

As part of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) research program, we documented and quantified Aboriginal social and economic values of aquatic resources and identified their flow links in the first study of its kind in Australia. The research was conducted over three years (2008-2010) in two tropical river catchments—the Daly River in the Northern Territory and the Fitzroy River in Western Australia—where water planners needed information on Aboriginal people's water requirements.