You need to get out of the echo chamber,
sources are the TV news, the newspapers, online, RFS members, NSW full time firies, all saying the same damn thing as the last 50 government enquiries in every state that has had bad fires.
We live next door to 20 acres of bush, it has not been burnt for 35 years, the owners have been trying to burn/slash/clear for the past 10 years but the council won't let them.
We had an arsonist light it over Xmas, while the firies were here we told them of the problem and they said we know all about it, it is very hard to get permission.
The very minimum hazard reduction required is 10% per annum, 20% near populated areas is desirable (and sensible)
To have a bad fire we need three things, heat, wind and fuel, we cannot control the first two but we can have a huge amount of control over the last one.
Cold burns in winter are easily controlled, create a safety buffer should we have a summer fire in the unburnt sections and protect our wildlife from the holocausts that happened this summer.
The aboriginals have lived here for 50,000 years without helicopters, water bombers, fire trucks etc etc, the Only way they survived was to create safety areas by burning in a patchwork fashion throughout their tribal area.
One tribal elder told me that around here they used to burn three times a year, wind dependent, to the lake, to the ocean and to the river, approx 200 people lived here so they had to monitor it closely
As every enquiry has said, we must do the same, this bloke explains it well
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/fires-not-due-to-climate-change-expert