On Monday, Nationals leader Michael McCormack avoided questions linking the bushfires to climate change and appealed for sympathy for those who have lost their homes. While calling out the Greens, he told Hamish Macdonald on RN Breakfast:“They don’t need the ravings of some pure, enlightened and 'woke' capital city Greenies at this time, when they’re trying to save their homes.”

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On Tuesday, the political mudslinging continued with Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John slamming both major parties for inaction on climate change by comparing them to "a bunch of arsonists".

And later that day, former Nationals leader Barnby Joyce joined the chorus, blaming the Greens and offending relatives of the deceased, telling Sky News, "I acknowledge that the two people died were most likely people who voted for the Green Party so I’m not going to start attacking them".

Finally, on Wednesday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for calm. “I think it’s important that at moments like this, everybody take it down a few notches,” he said at a press conference.