alt Hacker NewsThere is an argument, perhaps no longer PC, that the indigenous population used fire to hunt, and so burnt off regularly. Fires these days are indeed devastating because we try to stop them. Established eucalyptus trees also thrive after a scrub fire; a "devastating" fire kills them.
Cultural burning is pretty much the current accepted understanding of how Australian indigenous people managed the land prior to colonisation.
https://study.unimelb.edu.au/student-life/inside-melbourne/c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming
Just want to reassure you that is not at all 'no longer PC'. If anything, the practice was banned by the coloniser - only for it more recently reintroduced.