51 STRONG TRADITIONAL OWNER PARTNERSHIPS Focus 6 aim: we will contribute to the momentum for all Traditional Owners to pursue their aspirations in Cultural burning. Strong partnerships between Traditional Owners are important because they provide spaces of understanding, strength, and safety. Strong Traditional Owner partnerships provide important opportunities for People and communities to come together to strengthen Culture, to share challenges, solutions, knowledge, goals, perspectives, and experiences, and to minimise the duplication of our efforts in achieving our aspirations. Traditional Owners are diverse in their Cultures, aspirations, and customs, but face similar challenges in reintroducing Cultural burning across Australia, such as sick Country, wi regulation, wi zoning, wi law, wi policy, and complex legal title, and land tenure. Walking together, sharing, and learning from each other is crucial to create an enabling and unhindered environment for all Traditional Owners to pursue their aspirations in returning Cultural burning to their Countries. “Success would be all Aboriginals have the capacity to build fire teams, where we are the ones doing all the burning.” “To be able to walk on Country that a lot of the times we’ve never been allowed to walk on or never had access to walk on, so to be able to go to new places and to be able to walk on Countries our Ancestors have walked on for millennia, to play our role, our Cultural obligation to care for Country... it is powerful.”
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