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I believe they are currently not able to do so due to Conservation and Environmental Management policies. This, to me is ludicrous. The indigenous population had been setting fire to bushlands during winter and wet seasons for tens of thousands of years in order to regenerate the forests and cull animal populations which were over-breeding. The Australian bushland has, over that time, adapted to this method and it is only since these policies or “laws” came in that we have seen these types of bushfires. There are vast areas of land which have had 30 years build-up of undergrowth and leaf-litter, fallen trees, and general over-growing. I firmly believe these factors are the reasons, coupled with hot windy weather conditions, why these fires are so big and spread so quickly.
But I don’t have any fancy degrees or anything, so what the fuck would I know.