Christian Science Monitor: The worst fires to hit Australias east coast in more than a decade have raised questions about what if any lessons have been learned from previous bushfire tragedies and stoked controversy over the federal governments climate change credentials.
Firefighters in New South Wales admitted they were unprepared for the hot and windy conditions that led to Thursdays inferno, which turned hundreds of houses into smoldering ruins and left at least one person dead. At the height of the emergency, 97...