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Thanks Daniel and yes mate our bush has evolved over eons to not only survive fire, but it needs it for health and to grow and for renewal.

Problem with that though, it may take a few hundred or more years to come back, not even a blink of an eye in an ecological time frame, but in our human years......

Its been catastrophic for the wildlife, but it must have been catastrophic for them for eons as well. There's small little pockets of bush that somehow was untouched, a few small valleys here and there
that must act as natural nurseries for surviving and untouched animal and bird life to breed up and start to move out to repopulate newly regenerating bush, again this happened for time immoral......but in our human years......

I've been giving a lot of thought to how the Aborigines must have coped, there's literally millions upon millions of acres gone and in their time a fire of this magnitude would have been even worse because there would have been zero farmland buffers, the whole of area would have been dense virgin bush. I can only think that they must have used the sea entirely for their food sources or just walked (however long that took) to unburnt areas for their survival.