NSW accepts all 76 recommendations of inquiry into summer bushfires and admits link to climate change

The NSW premier has admitted climate change played a major role in the summer's fires, with authorities seeing things "they have never seen before in decades of firefighting".

Source: AAP

An independent New South Wales inquiry into the "Black Summer" bushfire disaster handed down its findings, and the state government is vowing to accept all 76 recommendations.

The devastating “Black Summer” bushfires has been felt nationwide.

They left 33 people dead, 2500 homes destroyed and 7,000 buildings in rubble.

Months later, people are still rebuilding.

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The report emphasises the need for aggressive hazard reduction, although it also found fuel loads during last season were no worse than they have been in the last 30 years.

It calls on the government to support communities to implement local hazard initiatives.

And commission research to understand better the effectiveness of different burning practices.

The report also recommends more aerial and fire-fighting at night, when conditions tend to be less intense.

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