Let me put some facts on the table here.
Aerial fire bombers have and will always be a State Govt. contractural arrangement. Stop blaming the Federal Govt for your State Govt's inaction and Greens policies!
Over 140 aircrafts are currently here Australia wide with Coulsons having some of the bigger contracts along with the often seen Skycrane/Air-cranes now based in South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales & A.C.T.
There would not be such a bushfire emergency IF:
1) there were not so many F'n arsonists lighting these fires Australia wide (183 arrested already with >200 total sought so far...);
2) The Greens/Labour hadn't locked up the National Parks from grazing, backburns and locked/let firetrails overgrow for the sake of "habitat';
3) Farmers weren't fined by local muppet Local Councils for hazaed reduction on there own land!
... the list goes on but Victoria is a classic case in point, in absolute bureaucratic stupidity and socialist/green idiocricy... EVEN after the 2009 Black Saturday Royal Commission decree that mpre hazard reduction was paramount, they only achieved an average of 10% year on year... only 33% in the last year!
So tell me peeps, what good do you think fleets of fire-bombers from above, are going to do to fix the stupidity of many years worth of huge amounts of un-attended dry undergrowth and follage?
Heads need to roll over this and it comes down to State & Local jurisdictions, NOT as mass media are trying to feed you as Scott Morrison's direct responsibilty, like we were the same as the USA voting system.