These bushfires are a historic event. Here is what we should learn from them | Cormac Farrell
As well as building more fire-resistant houses, we should be looking to Indigenous fire management practices for a long-term solution
With the ongoing bushfire crisis, it is clear that we are in the middle of a historic event that will change the way we manage fire in the Australian environment.
As a bushfire protection scientist, I am mostly focused on the practical problems these major events have given rise to, what went wrong or right, how we can solve these and prepare for the future.
My personal perspective is based on working as a fire protection planner in the aftermath of the 2003 Canberra fires and the 2009 Victorian Black Saturday fires. These events resulted in significant changes to how we protect communities, which have been successful in a lot of cases. There are still several months to run in
