 The benefits to the landscape, to people, to the country is quite significant and far more than I ever appreciated. My name's Phil Hawkey. I'm the CFA Vegetation Management Officer in the North East region. Initially I had an interest in learning about traditional burning practices to see how it would apply to CFA. It's been a journey of discovery for the last five or six years and continues to be. The benefits include, apart from fuel reduction, which is an obvious benefit, but the social benefits is economic benefits. There's mental health and other health benefits that can be attributed to having traditional owners and Aboriginal communities returning to undertake traditional practices. I was thrilled to be nominated for this award. I was very pleased to see that CFA went down this path where they're recognising a lot of the good work that's being done by people right across the state. Fire is only a small part of our business in this modern world and the work that people are doing in communities for communities is fantastic right across the state.