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.
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