Submission in response to Victoria’s Draft Bushfire Management Strategy

In August 2023, EJA made a submission on Victoria’s Draft Bushfire Management Strategy, outlining key issues with the draft strategy.

EJA has undertaken a range of work relating to the issue of bushfires in Victoria, bushfire management and bushfire strategy in general. These areas of work and engagement can be categorised into the following:

  • Legal and policy analysis and advice on use and application of cultural fire by Aboriginal Traditional Owners (also referred to as cultural burns or cultural burning in the Draft Strategy);
  • Ecological impacts and management of planned burning operations, including legal considerations;
  • Pollution impacts and management of planning burning operations, including legal considerations.

We will contend with each of these issues in turn in these submission. Our experience and expertise in respect of each are relevant to the proposed Bushfire Management Strategy for Victoria.

Read the submission

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We pay respect to their Elders past and present, and pay tribute to the vital role First Nations peoples play in caring for Country across Australia.

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© 2023 Environmental Justice Australia. ABN: 74 052 124 375 | Endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient. Donations of $2 or more to EJA are tax deductible in Australia. Authorised by Nicola Rivers and Elizabeth McKinnon, EJA, Level 3, 60 Leicester St, Carlton, Vic, 3053.