The experts driving Australia’s bushfire policies won’t acknowledge that different forests produce different fires, writes Professor Tom Griffiths.

The most shocking fact about Black Saturday 2009 is that people died where they thought they were safest, where they were told they would be safest. Of the 173 people killed on Black Saturday, two-thirds died in their own homes. Of those, a quarter died sheltering in the bath. There were relatively few injuries: the destruction was total, and the following day brought an awful stillness and silence.

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