I doubt there would be many fire problems in the far North of Australia, with such high humidity?
Suseonline,
It is totally & utterly tinder-dry up here & we even have fires but because there were back burns before it got too dry all fires just go out again after a while. What you have to understand is that fires are a natural part of the bush & fires only started to become a problem when people moved into areas where there have never been people & started building houses.
I'm fairly sure that many gunyas have burnt over the millenniums of Aborigines roaming the land but they were a lot simpler to rebuild & hardly any family photos or other prized possessions were lost.

<< In the midst of the terrible bushfires that are ravaging NSW, Greens Deputy leader Adam Bandt has stooped low to extract political capital out of the devastation, by taking an opportunist tweet at Abbott. >>

Not at all, OTB.

I’m not a fan of the Greens, and I don’t think Bandt did particularly well in that interview for which you provided the link in your opening post… but he’s right!!

Abbott is moving away from addressing climate change (and is just completely not addressing peak oil, population stabilisation or sustainability, which are closely related issues).

The Greens SHOULD be very strongly bringing him to task over this stuff!!

Trouble is: their concern about climate change is not holistic. They are just as hopeless on peak oil, population and sustainability as the Coalition is!

hilarous to hear the gw religious followers blaming gw for bushfires. They are usually the ones that won't allow burning in case some nearly extinct tadpole dissappears. They ignore that the fuel was helped greatly by rain where their high priest had predicted would not fall much anymore. What a foolhardy belief they hold to. To think they have the front to call their belief science.

Bill Shorten showed he hasn't learned anything from the drubbing Labor received in the election, or from the feedback he has received from Labor's rank and file, by having it half each way with the Greens.

That is not a good omen for Shorten's ability and strength of character to come up with fresh, attractive policies for Labor in the next three to six years. Shorten should know by now that playing cricket with the Greens on your team will always result in them stealing the ball at every opportunity and you wearing the bat across the head.

It was left to Louise Markus the Member representing Blue Mountains electorate affected by the fires to be sensitive and decent, saying,

< "There are people who have lost their homes. There are people who have lost everything. There are people coming to grips with what they have lost," she said. "No one could have done anything to stop the speed of that fire.

"My priority is to make sure the people I represent get everything they need to recover from this.">

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/bushfires/bandt-politicising-blazes-was-disgusting/story-fngw0i02-1226742790365

The Greens are still trying to screw some political mileage out of the tragedy of course.

"The Greens are still trying to screw some political mileage out of the tragedy of course."

But of course, they're amateurs compared to otb, who's going like the clappers to get political mileage "out of this story".

(Of course, Poirot is bringing up the rear, getting political mileage out of otb's political mileage....it's a vicious circle)

Is Poirot Adam Bandt ? She could be by the way she defends it.