If the Net Zero lot keeps destroying the bush with windmills, solar panels and planned wire mazes, there will be nothing left to burn.

For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians actively managed the land through frequent, low-intensity burning. This "cultural fire" regime created open forests, controlled fuel loads, and sustained biodiversity. European colonisation disrupted this balance. The suppression of Aboriginal fire practices and later policies favouring fire exclusion allowed vegetation to become denser (including understories) and more flammable.

Aboriginal practices also managed to Confine Megafauna and many small animals to the dustbin of history

Aboriginal "management" is just another myth, with no significance to the present anyway.

In relation to the comments, fuel loads and strata are not going to disappear or reduce, the next set of bushfire disasters are just around the corner. Contiguous high fuel loads across landscapes are common, a drive around most of our towns will highlight this as a starting point before venturing into forests and national parks. There is no doubt Aboriginal burning was effective and many forests were more open, and this was recorded by early explorers, settlers and miners and more recent fire science. Expanded low intensity mitigation programs are critical.

On cape York the burning has been going on for some time now this season. Our local blokes know when & how to burn without the guaranteed stuffing up by the "experts" from the Government offices in the South.
The right time for cold burning is when time is right not when some ignorant bureaudroids say.

The author has set out many of the major issues that contribute to disastrous high intensity bushfire outcomes where ever there are one or more years of below average rainfall in southern Australia. With the exception of WA, fire authorities seem more focussed on building bigger water bombing fleets, at extraordinary cost to taxpayers, than spending the necessary funds on mitigation works such as widespread low intensity planned burns.

The current fire and ecological legislation and subsidiary documentation is written from a terra nullius view. While mega fauna may have died off since the arrival of Aboriginal people, their fire management created an extraordinary diversity of flora and fauna, shaped and protected by regular low intensity burning. The impact of any lightning ignitions in ash and other higher rainfall forests were mitigated by low fuel levels in surrounding forests, resulting from Aboriginal burning. If Aboriginal people had the same approach as our current fire management bureaucrats, they would have starved themselves out of house and home.

In the 26 years, prior to and including 2019-20, 171 percent of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area was subject to unplanned and often high intensity bush/mega fires. If that is resulting in "permanent protection" of these once ecologically rich and biodiverse landscape, why has the NSW NP&WS stated: "Our protected areas provide a vital refuge for many of these threatened species. In New South Wales (NSW), around 85% of all species threatened with extinction are represented on the national park estate. Most are endemic to Australia or NSW – found nowhere else in the world. However, even on the NSW national park estate, the future for these approximately 800 species is threatened by feral animals, weeds, altered fire regimes, the impact of climate change and other threats."