Experts pointed to poor forest management in Australia as well. There are recent governmental policies that prohibit prescribed burns and other proactive land management, combined with an especially dry season this made for a disaster waiting to happen. This will happen with or without climate change, a phrase that seems to be applied to any variance in weather we deem negative.
The same thing caused the wildfires in Brazil: recent government policies prohibited prescribed burns, the creation of fire-breaks, and other land management and the result was predictable after enough natural kindling had built up over years.
Proper land management and forest policies can vastly outweigh any changes the climate is throwing at us. Arson and human error also need to be addressed more effectively.
Well in Australia we had an established practice for 60,000 years of selective burning of the bush each year based on our first peoples knowledge of wind and weather patterns. Over the last 200 years as the bush was converted to grazing and pasture that practice was discontinued and for the past 40 years there have a vociferous group who argue nature should be left alone and not interferred with by man. Now there is renewed engagement of our first people to manage the bush going forward.
As for the climate change impact , yes we have always had bush fires, but the incidence of bushfire weather conditions is increasing. Better bush management may limit the ferocity of these fires, but it will not stop them starting.