Environmental vegetation obsession to blame for bushfire destruction - cairnsnews.org

A heartbreaking scene in Harcourt, Victoria, where Tyrone and Raewyn Rice and family lost their home. Tyrone, Raewyn and their son Nathan are all members of the local CFA and spent the night battling the fast-moving and unpredictable fire while their own own home was destroyed.
This suburban “indigenous vegetation reserve” in Perth is typical of many across the country that are simply fire bombs waiting to explode in heatwave and high-wind conditions.
ACROSS Australia from Perth to country Victoria in the past few weeks, dozens of homes have been destroyed in the latest summer heatwave.
It should come as no surprise with councils and governments still stuck in the ludicrous obsession with “saving vegetation” that can be destroyed in a matter of minutes by wildfires driven by hot, dry heatwave winds.
Perth, which suffered destructive wildfires in January 2021, 2023 and 2025, has again been battling wildfires in the southern suburbs of Warnbro and Waikiki with the help of a C130 dropping …