The bushfire royal commission has cast doubt on whether hazard reduction burning to reduce fuel loads makes a significant difference during extreme fire events.
The royal commission into natural disasters calls for stronger peak agencies,better warning systems and faster military deployments.
The bushfire royal commission report shows that the time has come for the Prime Minister Scott Morrison to address global warming.
Victorians who lost their homes in last summer's catastrophic bushfires are calling for a massive expansion of the state's fleet of water bombers.
The Black Summer inquiry,due to report on Friday,arguably tackles greater challenges than any of Australia's 51 previous bushfire investigations.
Space age firefighting technologies are being trialled in a $6 million project by the Australian National University and Optus.
A new federal agency would lead a national response to emergencies such as bushfires,pandemics and large-scale cyber attacks under a proposal being drawn up by the federal government.
But its interim report into the Black Summer bushfires stops short of the practical action called for in February by the Prime Minister.
New laws to be drawn up will make it easier to deploy the military to deal with national emergencies.
The lack of nationally consistent data on bushfires resulted in an overestimation of the extent of last season's bushfires by as much as a quarter,researchers say.
Mike Pezzullo told the bushfire royal commission that the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need to manufacture and stockpile emergency supplies.