' Fire in the Desert'
Michael Terry
This is the first of three talks by Michael Terry , who has been in Australia for the last twenty years exploring the centre and north of the continent. He has led fourteen expeditions, which have had as their purpose the discovery of mineral wealth. At the same time they collected information about the weather, which was forwarded to the Commonwealth Weather Bureau, and surveyed the country they travelled through, making botanical collections and so on. Today Michael Terry will discuss some contrasting aspects of fire in the Australian bush. Fire in these wild parts may be divided into two kinds
—the fire men fight to make, and the fire that Nature makes for man to fight.