Indigenous rangers in WA north priced out of bushfire prevention by insurance price jump

Indigenous ranger groups in the north of Western Australia will have to stop their bushfire suppression work at the end of June unless a solution can be found to a more-than-doubling of fire insurance premiums in the space of a year.

The Kimberley Land Council helps manage this work across a region almost twice the size of the state of Victoria, but the organisation’s land and sea unit manager Will…