21 February

Have been banging on about this for years. 'Hazard reduction burns' are a real problem. They protect property, not people, and what they do to air pollution is off the scale. People die, and many more have health effects that don't show up until much later. If people build in bushfire-prone areas, the risks are known and losing the house is better than poisoning everybody else's air to protect it. You can rebuild houses.