Fire insurance premiums in the north of Western Australia have more than doubled, forcing Indigenous ranger groups to stop their bushfire control work.
Land and sea manager of the Kimberley Land Council, Will Durack stated the service is not only essential for local people in Kimberley, but for the WA community and for the entire nation.
Aboriginal rangers manage fire across hundreds of thousands of northern Australia, in the Kimberly area working across a region almost twice the size of the state of Victoria