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[It is a serious problem in Australia and the Greens have their heads in the sand, since their policies are one of the main causes of the fires, besides the arsonists]

Is there a ban on giving permits to loggers, etc, to clear material that might provide kindling and fuel for bush fires? Or are there other government policies that are aggravating the problem?

ABC, fully funded by the taxpayers - over a billion Aussie dollars a year - obsessed with gloBULL warming, gender, refugees & not much else. no-one can touch them.

in this piece, they are desperate to downplay arson. in others, they desperately try to downplay the failure to carry out hazard reduction, as noted below:

VIDEO: 10m: 10 Jan: Sky News: Chris Smith: Local council restrictions make prescribed burning ‘almost impossible’
Since the Royal Commission into the Black Saturday fires, only a third of the area earmarked for hazard reduction burns has been cleared and former CSIRO bushfire expert Phil Cheney says there have been “excuses… and Pseudo-science to justify this”.
An expert committee recommended eight percent of the burnable land in Victoria to be cleared, which was then reduced to five per cent and even this figure has been unachievable.
Mr Cheney told Sky News this was the “Inevitable result of the government’s abrogating [of] their responsibility to managing public lands” as he explained local government’s cannot “set a priority on what they want to manage the land for”.
In many of these local government areas the necessary prescribed burning has been “almost impossible” due to the council restrictions including “vegetation restriction orders”.
“We don’t have the roads or trails that are necessary to do prescribed burning in a scientific and proper manner”, Mr Cheney said.
“We’re starting so-far behind the eight-ball”
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6121349634001

It is much worse than that with just the loggers. Farmers, landowners and even home owners cannot get permits from local councils controlled by the Greens to do bush clearing, fire breaks, fire paths on their own land. The Greens believe is is unnatural to do these clearings. One home owner who wanted to clear 30 ft of brush has been trying to do it for 2 years. They wanted him to count every tree, give the Latin names for each tree plant 20 trees for every tree cut down somewhere on his property. This was all documented by SkyNews.