Mark,
Judging by the amount of ill-considered abuse for your point of view I would venture to say that the silent majority of OLO contributors agree with you. We don/t just want a change of policies from the government, we want some action, particularly where are we going to get the clean power when the old coal fired stations close down. The bush fires are just a distraction which have unfortunately intruded into a much greater scheme of things.
David

Scott Morrison is not all that bad, as the article attempts to twist the truth.

Scott Morrison is a dedicated Family man with a Christian moral compass.

I like Israel Falou for the same reason.

I find them both very refreshing.

Dan.

The army was present in a small way quite early I believe, but
not in NSW. The army does not get requested until things really get
tough and hard. They are not trained fire fighters and cannot be
allowed onto a fire ground.

Who can be called and by whom, how requested equipment is paid for.
Someone might request a $150000 piece of machinery, that has to be
requested from a hire company, it has to be insured and if an
emergency has been declared it is done immediately.
These details are already in Displans to enable quick decisions.
There is a hell of a lot going on at the same time and the Feds have
nothing to do with it.
Someone on TV just said the PM should have intervened.
Just walk in and take over in such an operation ?
These people are just STUPID !

These people are just STUPID !
Bazz,
Sadly, you're right. My query is the bureaucracy surrounding such matters. If there were a National Service scheme all this nonsense would be taken care of.
We need to rid ourselves of this Leftist protection racket Red tape ! It's the only way we can stop the regress caused by the insipid & selfish tactics by the progressives !

Individual, I don't think national service would help much.
In the area I am involved with there are six primary combat
organisations and another six Functional Groups that provide ancillary
services. Some are voluntary and some such as Railways are not.
My experience of it is that it works very well as we all know our
own organisations and what can be made available quickly.
At the committee we all know each other can just merge all our
organisations into one operation.
We are not the control of the actual on the ground activity, that is
for the appropriate combat group, such as Rural Fire Service, or in
floods SES, or a Biological risk Dept Agriculture in one case we had.
We organise everything around the main event.
Imagine the Feds just walking in and taking that over, aaarrrggghhh !

I can understand Monckton's socialism analogy:

"Comrades, we have a great problem that requires an urgent and radical solution. The journey will not be easy, but you will leave a better world for future generations."

The question you wont get an answer for is,"How long will it be before things improve by taking the proposed action?". Given that the answer is easily as far into our future as Columbus's voyage to America was into our past, perhaps much further, the reluctance to talk about it is understandable. Had Morrison adopted all of the proposed measures, an improvement in climate (if you think the fires the result of climate change and believe the predictions) would not be expected for centuries.

And what of the proposed action? Like socialism, the measures would leave the population destitute long before achieving Utopia. Like socialism, possible solutions must pass through an ideological sieve, so that proven low carbon technology like nuclear power and potential solutions like ocean fertilisation are excluded, whereas wind and solar, which are uneconomic and will not solve the problem, get the thumbs up.