OK folks, I am a man-made Climate Change skeptic myself.
But let’s look at this more clearly — were the ORIGINAL Bushfires caused by these arsonists? Or was it caused by the extremely hot weather?
It could be that the original Bushfires were containable but these arsonists actually EXACERBATED the catastrophe by deliberately lighting even more fires.
One fire bug / pyromaniac apparently set 17 fires..
At that rate : 200 arsonists might start 4,000 new fires ?
Plus the arsonists not yet caught.