Hmmm... let's see - really huge fires in Victoria...
1851, (1898), 1939
control burning first introduced after 1939
1983
fire management beefed up a lot more after Ash Wednesday
2002, 2003, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2009 - which would have been much worse but for helicopters and planes being used
No-one else sees a pattern here - or relate it to here?
