Sorry, have to correct you AlanB.
Firstly, Aboriginal burning changed vegetation and exterminated the megafauna because it eliminated their browse. Open grassy ecosystems with diverse groundlayers and mesofauna flourished. Mild burning maintained these healthy, safe and productive ecosystems for 40,000 years. Charcoal in sediment cores is a measure of burnt biomass. There was a peak in charcoal around the time that Aborigines spread across the continent. After Europeans arrived and disrupted Aboriginal burning there was a much larger peak. This was unprecedented in 70,000 years of sediment records, indicating massive death and destruction, erosion etc.. There was a sharp decline after the mid-20th Century when foresters introduced mild broad area burning. The huge increases since greens interfered with burning from the 1980s onwards, haven't yet been investigated in new sediment cores. The diverse flora and fauna and healthy nutrient cycling processes when whitefellas arrived were perfectly in tune with frequent mild burning. Fire suppression turned everything to crap and failed abysmally. The first megafires in Victoria that burnt 5 million hectares in 1851 less than 2 decades after mild burning was first disrupted, didn't have much to do with climate change.

Doesn't matter if public bushland burns. It's just bush. What matters is the destruction brought on private property that landowners could mitigate against themselves if allowed.
State takeover of private property through the various vegetation and biodiversity preservation laws is the main culprit. The tendency toward self preservation of bureaucracies is another.
The climate fad has run it's course. All that's left there is for public figures to realise there's more saving face to be had from admitting it was nonsense than trying to keep it going for vanities sake.

On the subject of mismanagement of national parks. There's a growing argument for the separation of park maintenance and fauna management. Combining those two things into Parks and Wildlife services appears to have created official bodies zealously focused on wildlife habitat protection above all other things.
This is probably wouldn't be so bad if P&W services were constrained to public land only. The Wildlife responsibility however extends jurisdiction of what should be parks focused services to all tenures.

Climate change ...zzzzz

Forty two degrees is predicted for Adelaide tomorrow; half a degree less than the record in 1962. In 1962, there was no mention of climate change, and the fire risk was 'extreme'.

Now the risk is 'catastrophic', because when the lies are not working, the liars manipulate or misuse language to frighten the hoi polloi whom they think are not as smart as they are. Catastrophic sounds much worse than extreme. But, there have probably been too many lies told about climate change and natural events for more lies to work.

Oh Vic, if only it was so simple.
David

maybe we should sue the Chinese and Indian Government for polluting the atmosphere. What a joke the warmist are.