You missed this bit dr:
We need to grab what is becoming possible in terms of unmanned aircraft and vehicles, and think big about what will make fire
fighting, and living in the community with fire, safer.
which negates the whole argument regarding crewing of LAT with Australian pilots.
In regards to the report I found that the best app to have on the phone during the fire crisis was the one that gave me access to the radio communication of the fire units. I was on the South Coast after the worst of the fires but you can get a lot of information out of the content and tone of the radio chatter.