As the fires rage, we glimpse the evolving abnormal

This has been done before.

These fires are climate change on the march. Denial of the seriousness of climate change is a crime against humanity and the planet.

Climate change is a crime of denial, theft and the massacre of future generations. It is the potential destruction of all we hold dear. For the older generations, it decimates the hopes of leaving a worthy solid legacy. For the young it shreds their imagined or hoped for future.

"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'," said Viktor E Frankl, psychologist and survivor of Nazi prison camps in Man's Search for Meaning.

So what does our "why" we should live become, when the old dreams are brutally annihilated and incinerated. For some it becomes about immediate survival. For others a defiant declaration of a determination to rebuild.

The city of Warsaw in Poland was resurrected from old plans, paintings and memories after the war. It had been pounded to rubble by merciless bombing. When I visited the old quarter of the city it had an aura of untouched preservation. Some scars were visible. The deeper wounds remained. A false Jewish quarter of restaurants, a remaining Jewish theatre.

Will we leave a token few, koalas, kangaroos and platypuses, in zoos, shrinking reservations or museums.?

I am filled with rage when the prime minister declares, as he stands in a dry field or in those rare moments he spends in the Parliament, 'we will rebuild.' How will old growth forests be resurrected and semi extinct native species be brought to life? How will lost communities be retrieved? Should we even seek to rebuild in high fire danger zones? Will the towns running dry be abandoned as in a surreal parallel universe the water is sold off bottled, or gifted to coal mines? Will the inconvenient inhabitants of burnt out small settlements be purged? Will the avaricious diggers (like Clive Palmer) of the sequestered carbon - touted as the great wealth of this country - be given free rein?

The big rebuild is a great lie. Is this another version of the false claim of Terra Nullius; where the mining barons and their profiteers can lay claim this land? Are we all to become the new dispossessed?

You lack food and water?

Swallow my slogan says the advertising man come Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister now called "Scotty from marketing" and the "crime minister" is trying to sell us a worthless insurance policy. Even as coal and gas become stranded assets.