Oliver Costello is a Bundjalung man from the northern rivers of New South Wales. He is a founding director and chief executive of the Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation and a visiting fellow at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS, which helped establish the Firesticks project.
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Our Ancestors Managed Fire Country for Millennia. We Yearn to Burn Once More
We live in fire country as taught through fire lore, this is how I understand what is happening across country. These times are hard for us first peoples, so often we are ignored.
January 28, 2020
