The heart of the issue is that any solution (more waterbombers, more permanent fire staff, more hazard reduction, volunteer incentives, maybe even relocation of people out of high risk fire areas?) is going to cost a lot of money (it’ll be
half a billion dollars for the hazard reduction burns advised by experts in NSW alone).
It’s a complicated problem and there’s no real answer to it except for large increases in spending, are we as a nation prepared to do it?