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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.
Key points:
- A WA Indigenous land council says it will have to stop bushfire mitigation on July 1 unless a solution is found to rising insurance costs
- Insurance for bushfire mitigation work has more than doubled in cost after the Black Summer fires
- The land council says insurers face a greater risk if Indigenous rangers stop fire management work
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…
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