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Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze

Author: Ross Bradstock, Professor, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong

Multiple large, intense fires are stretching from Australia's coast to the tablelands and parts of the interiorAAP Image/Supplied, JPSS

Last week saw an unprecedented outbreak of large, intense fires stretching from the mid-north coast of New South Wales into central Queensland.

The most tragic losses are concentrated in northern NSW, where 970,000...