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McKemey M, Neale T & Costello O (2021a). Principles for enhanced collaboration between land and emergency management agencies and Indigenous peoples: green paper, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, Melbourne

Smith W, Neale T & Weir JK (2021). Persuasion without policies: the work of reviving Indigenous peoples’ fire management in southern Australia. Geoforum 120:82–92.