This week on Please Explain, Tory Maguire talks to chief political correspondent David Crowe and environment editor Peter Hannam about the politics around this current bushfire crisis. 

While there is some reprieve from the fires, rising from the embers are questions for our politicians and there is no longer any willingness to accept the response "now is not the time."

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