Max, was it not the greens who have always preached against logging, land clearing and so on?
Labor made the decision to bring them on board (preferences) and they were blackmailed into adopting some of their policies, or they would not back some of labor policies.
And so it is that the greens ARE responsible for this catastrophe.
If it makes you feel better, we'll add the labor party as co-conspirators and therefore equally guilty.
Federal govt makes the decisions about matters like Crown land.
The states make the decisions about how to execute the decision made by the feds.
If Morrison ignored the request made by a govt department, the info must have been flawed or inconclusive for him to reject it.
If that is truly what happened and not some greens trying to get the blame shifted away from them.
I'm still trying to work out how "keeping it in his pants", and global warming are connected.
Although I am curious as to where you are headed with that one.
Anyway, as for knowing how govts work, it sounds like we just might know enough to know BS when we hear it.

TTBN & ALTRAV,

TTBN: I said a lot of words. Lots of true words, with facts attached with verifying links and government sources. You said a lot of words about my words, but contributed no evidence.

Grow up, be RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN POSITION LIKE A MAN, and do your own damn homework. Justify your own positions with reasonable arguments and facts and verifying links. Or, if you can't handle the heat, just get out of the kitchen Dorothy. OK? Now just click your ruby slippers together and recite 3 times, "There are no State government agencies..." and this pesky sensation of being wrong will soon go away.

ALTRAV,
The Greens might have protested against logging in old growth forests to protect biodiversity, and for that, I salute them! They may have raised particular ecosystems as particularly unsuitable for fuel reduction burns, and for that I salute them! The 1939 Royal Commission found some bushlands get WORSE when you burn them too much!

“Federal govt makes the decisions about matters like Crown land.”
Hazard Reduction burns? Got any evidence for that?

“The states make the decisions about how to execute the decision made by the feds.”
Hazard Reduction burns? Got any evidence for that?

“Anyway, as for knowing how govts work, it sounds like we just might know enough to know BS when we hear it.”
Yeah, sure! ;-) It actually sounds like you’ve been caught rubbing peanut butter all over Mr Winky! Let me remind you how the world works, with something we call EVIDENCE!

“Political parties of any denomination do NOT influence the decisions of organisations like FRNSW, ACT Fire and Rescue, ACT and NSW Rural Fire Services and Parks and Wildlife Services when choosing when and how to do Hazard Reduction burns. It just doesn’t work like that. The main reason Hazard Reduction burns are cancelled or delayed is due to the predicted intensity of the burn exceeding the limits that would make it safe for firefighters, native flora and fauna and obviously you wonderful people.”
FRNSW Station 428, Queanbeyan
https://www.facebook.com/groups/951618864874073/permalink/2735127049856570/

Just read this article:

As 6 Million Hectares of Australia Burned, Seven Times the Size of Amazon Fires, Germany Acted

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/as-6-million-hectares-of-australia-burned-seven-times-the-size-of-amazon-fires-germany-acted/news-story/e802e7344f5ce54b35bc31c13ec30f01

I thought great some other country just up and took the initiative without asking;
Maybe they sent some water bombers or something to help us out.

- I should've known better than to think that...

Have they trialed explosive charges to fight bush fires?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/05/22/fighting-wildfires-explosives-australia/9392851/

"And who knows what the rest of summer might bring?" (From The Mercury article).

But, hang on. Haven't the warmist told us that they know what is going to happen?

"The fires have led to social disruption on a wartime scale."

Oh, come on! The current fires are worse than many people have seen in their short lifetimes, but they are in no way comparable with warfare. The writer of the article, Peter Boyer, clearly has not seen much warfare either.

Just more emotional, headless-chook bullshite from the gutter press.

"Climate hysteria conveniently absolves green academics from culpability for the human, environmental and economic disasters that they HAVE VISITED ON AUSTRALIA through their bad advice to governments on land and fire management. ('Firestick Ecology' by Vic Jurskis, veteran forester and fire expert).