High fuel loads have led to catastrophic fires

Philip Hopkins

Mistakes in the Stretton Royal commission into the 1939 bushfires - misunderstanding the role of lightning and traditional Indigenous land and fire management - have distorted bushfire policy over the years, according to the Mountain Cattlemen's Association of Victoria.

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