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 In northern Australia, traditional owners’ deep knowledge of country allows them to use fire to manage the land. Photograph: Helen Davidson/The Guardian
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Much of northern Australia is owned and managed by Indigenous people, now in many parts by carefully and skilfully organised Indigenous ranger groups. Fire is, and always has been, part of the interwoven matrix of the relationships between people and the physical and spiritual world. The smell of smoke is expected to be in the air for half the year.

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