No clearing. Origins of fires in government land. True. But nitwits will continue arguing, and nothing will be done. Environmentalism should be outlawed.

Discussing the subject is a complete waste of time. There is no indication that anything is going to be changed in the future.

Repeats of repeats of repeats of repeats ! Get rid of the "academic Experts" i.e. ideological do-gooders loaded to the brim with arrogant ignorance !
Get rid of them, stop listening to them, that's my advise to the Govts !
Let farmers deal with those issues as it is in their best interest.
I'll start taking the "experts" serious about anything environmental when they curb their excesses in all matters of convenience, commodities, travel & start contributing with effort & merit. In other words stop sabotaging Australia !

Disagree and agree. Firstly burning is not the only means to reduce combustible fuel, Other options include goats and whipper snippers, both of which remain available 24/7 65 days a year, prescribed burning has a narrow window that is contracting with climate change.

Lessons from the past that have been ignored are our reliance on coal/fossil fuel exports/imports, both of which contribute to climate change and the quite deliberate dismantling of our manufacturing sector.

We needed to change our energy mix and exports over twenty years ago, but because we have the albatrosses of tweedle dumb and tweedle dumber at the helm all the economic opportunities of energy cheaper than coal have been avoided by asinine Idealogues.

Even so, an equally dumbed down diehards, keep electing them! And on a litany of broken promises!

Bush fires were once controlled far better than now when we selectively logged our forests!

Logging roads created natural fire breaks and there were more eyes looking for spot fires and racing to extinguish them before they went too far!

Whereas, now we lock away vast swathes of bush and forbid the annual grazing that back then reduced the fuel load.

Heard on the news recently we were going o cull many camels, these soft-footed creatures would be ideal as fuel reduction devices not constrained by climate variations. And therefore the cull is ill-conceived or downright stupid.

We do need to do so much so differently and first cab off the rank is how we use and store water. All upland country must include dozen of small and tiny dams along every watercourse regardless of seasonal water flows which would be vastly extended, Force the salt table far lower, store billions of litres of valuable liquid in the landscape!

This storage could be extended into the flood plains with canal fed by the river systems, backfilled with gravel and serviced by perforated agpipes. Then re-covered to prevent evaporation.

This would keep vast swathes of agricultural land permanently moist and more importantly the vegetation. Which would be more nutritious/not so easily burned!
Alan B

Interesting summary of our history of bushfire inquiries.This list of inquiries that have been ignored says it all. Will the next one(s) be acted upon ow that is the $64 billion question.

Until climate change cultism is put back in perspective and returned to Pandora's Box and our governments address the issues of fire load, I fear we will be back in this situation again and again.

What will come from future inquiries, will be another layer of additional regulations for the building code.

More of the homeless will result.

The enquiry should lead with research of what demographic of people, tend to live in prone bush block areas.

On the surface of it, those sorts of people are not necessarily the farming variety.

Building more accessible infrastructure such as roads and bridges to service the isolated communities will not only increase their likelihood of survival during fire seasons, but improve their life structure by lifting them out of poverty and into a real estate bonanza.

Dan

The less fuel the less heat, the less burning, even a village idiot knows that but as usual the 'experts' don't !