Though it stretches the parameters within which my limited intellect can
function, Chris, I found your further elucidation helpful when taken with
one or 2 of your later mails on the subject, from which I had already
gathered that to a large extent the fires had other causes dependent on
climatic & material conditions ; this, btw, was also confirmed by a German
reporter on the scene in Sydney (on TV last night) who cast grave doubt on
the governmental & media scapegoating in view of the fact, for example, that
much of the brush now burning almost uncontrollably had not been duly burnt
as a prophylactic measure owing to negligence (?) ~ he also said that one or
2 newspapers & a considerable number of Australians had begun to criticize
the government in this & other respects. Perhaps you can verify that. Thanks
a lot; your mails have educated & provoked thought.
Martin
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