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According to the Australian Government website for the Australian Institute of Criminology (see website link below): "13 percent of vegetation fires are recorded as being deliberate and another 37 percent as suspicious. That is, for all vegetation fires for which there is a cause recorded, 50 percent may be lit deliberately."

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