How many of these fires were deliberately started ? Are arsonists a product of CC also ?

MrO, the guardian article is meant to be a joke right?
She is obviously a joke, and therefore, due to the lack of reason in the premise of that article, so it makes her a joke as well.
So let me get this right, some maggot of a media nobody, writes something with an obvious political bias and lean, and we are all supposed to do what?
Take it seriously?
Listen if your the type of person that does or believes everything you hear and see, then you are a problem, if you vote as well.
You, and her, and anyone who even thinks that Morrison, living his life, is in any way responsible, or answerable to anyone, because of an act of God which became a tragedy beyond belief, when the facts are clear and unambiguous, yet you want to turn this into a smear campaign.
Anyone with your frame of mind is mentally incompetent.
You, and the author of that article must be GREENS, or you would not make such ludicrous statements.
The fact that you both did confirms your state of mental health.
Now get this through your thick heads.
The fault of the fires is NOT Morrison, but whoever/whatever started/lit them!
The fault of the INTENSITY of the fires was all down to a coming together and timing of several factors.
The heat, which had nothing to do with Morrison.
The wind, which had nothing to do with Morrison.
And the amount of "fuel" on the ground, which had nothing to do with Morrison.
Now out of all those factors, you can stop blustering on about two things.
One it had nothing to do with Morrison, and.
Two it had/has nothing to do with this alleged GW or CC.
Three, it has everything to do with the GREENS and them being charged with murder or manslaughter, and all of them being sent up the river, just for being alive.
Imagine if these bastards did not exist, at the very least, those people that died, would still be alive today.

Altrav,

"Imagine if these bastards did not exist, at the very least, those people that died, would still be alive today.".

Surely thou jesteth?

Whom do you blame for the bushfire deaths before the Greens came along?

This is a second repeat but I think it is worthwhile.

The amazing lack of knowledge of the emergency management structure
is something that will need attention.
The ridiculous criticism of the PM over the announcement of the Federal
government setting up a new organisation was amazing.
Anyone with any nous would know that the PM has to first inform the State Premiers.
He does not run around telling public servants first.
Where the PM can be criticised is that he did not give enough time for
the information to be disseminated by the Premier.
The TV is always on in Emergency Management Control centres so they
saw the public announcement and got their knickers in a twist.
The announcement does not have an immeadiate affect as most defense
assets were already in the field and the 3000 would take a day or two
to be organised.
They will not be firefighters but will be organised for the recovery.
Still, you don't criticise the commissioner as he is under significant
strain and may have been up all night. Reading between the lines I
think he understood the situation.

Every District and Local area has an Emergency Management Committee
which does not control Response function as that is the job or
whichever combat organisation is activated.
Currently it is the RFS.
There is a Disaster Plan, known as Displan.
It has three components, Preparation, Response ans Recovery.
We are currently mostly in Response mode but starting to activate recovery.
The committees provide anything the combat organisation requests,
food, buses for evacuation, communications support, such as the
organisation to which I belong that has sent a small team to Bega to
provide communication services.

It is a bit like a swan, gliding along on the surface but a hive of activity underneath.
Most of the activity never gets seen on TV.

Issy, the answer to your question: "Who do we blame for the bush-fire deaths before the GREENS came along"?
Well Issy, the answer is real simple:
NO ONE!
Some can only blame themselves for putting themselves in harms way, by building their homes in places that had a certain degree of risk.
The others were actually "acts of God", and you can blame him if you want.
People have to learn that some things are just not right, irrespective of their stupid selfish attitude.
Putting yourself and worse your children in a dangerous situation just because you're a moron that wants to feel good about yourself and show off to your friends that you are living the dream, in the bush in amongst nature and the trees, only comes back and tells you what a fool you are for thinking that you are one with nature.
Actually you are, you went up in smoke, just like nature did.
Another thing I want all these tree hugging, flower power freaks to have firmly stamped in their heads, this is life, this is normal, forests burn, animals die, it's part of what they call the cycle of life.
Stop trying to control nature, you are fools, the lot of you.
Animals die all the time, by fire and by natural everyday events like predators, and you cannot/must not, do anything about it.
Leave them alone to live or die as is natural in life.
I love it when some jelly brained princess saves an animal, takes it home, fixes it back up and then releases it back in the wild, only to watch a predator swoops down and takes it away to eat it.
It has to be one of the best karma and irony's out there today.
What a bunch of morons, and these are the people who are allowed to vote?
What a joke!

My friends dog died rather suddenly yesterday, he was only 5mths old.
The little broke was starting to grow on me too, always coming up and gnawing on my toes.
Sadly, it was far too soon for him.