There are two observations to make:
1. Australia is a back water of self-interest. Everything is hollowed out. Infrastructure, water and power all gone.
The system so devoid of capacity that a first world country has no capacity to deliver assets (fuel, food and water) down a highway to support a volunteer force fighting something they have de-funded from tackling.
Listening to that idiot Morrison keep digging a hole, Gladys hoping that no one mentions the cuts to the RFS and the " Commish" all resplendent in his medals on $370K a year defending the non-payment to those volunteers is pathetic.
Watching Smoko forcefully try to shake hands has gone global for a reason, he is not fit to lead a choir.
2. Australian strategic policy used to suggest that at best, the ADF could defend the Bass Strait oil fields..
That policy needs a re-think.From connections on the ground with two agencies, their message is overwhelming: a Fustercluk. ZERO communication, zero plan.
Local police and RFS and aid units, together, have been doing their own thing, the best they can.