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A hazard reduction burn at Majura earlier this year.

What's the difference between back-burning and hazard reduction burning? And is it the solution to reducing bushfires? Professor Phil Gibbons explains the science and explores the limitations of hazard-reduction burning in the Canberra Times.

"As a scientist who has dedicated considerable time - often at taxpayers expense - assembling evidence on house losses during bushfires, it is frustrating that more hazard-reduction burning is touted as the simple solution to our bushfire crises," Phil writes.

Read the full article at the Canberra Times website.