WilliamOK
Why waste peopel's money on stopping something that is a natural cycle in Australia.....
That's not a very well thought out comment to make. When your house and loved ones are in the line of some inferno I wonder if you will be singing the same tune then? I doubt it.
Before white man arrived in this country there was only a hand full of original inhabitants who probably deliberately started the fire to clear the undergrowth and wild native animals. Today we have thousands of people potentially in harms way and hundreds of thousands of hectares of grazing and agricultural land that could be destroyed because of these and other fires which would have a huge impact on our economy. I think this is more than reason enough to do what we can to fight them.