I have been listening a lot to Bill Gammage. He has a book "The Greatest Estate on Earth- How Aborigines Made Australia"
Provocative thought for the greenies to allow mosaic and template burns in the nation's forests. Planned locally, nationally beneficial. Someone already has posted around here that more thought needs investing in numerous and regular planned fuel reduction burns to eliminate the scrubby middle storie in our bushland. Makes you wonder if the end game of the NPA is a landscape that predates aborigines...no wildfire means no need for expensive toys and massive, expensive, over staffed command and control.
The Straddie fire is looking more like fuel reduction now the humidity is up.