One year on from South Australia’s bushfire crisis, is the state any more prepared?

The first anniversary of South Australia’s deadly bushfire crisis that engulfed the Adelaide Hills and then Kangaroo Island is, for the communities involved, a time for reflection but also for reckoning.

The Cudlee Creek blaze was one of 200 fires that broke out in catastrophic conditions on December 20, 2019 — the same day that fires broke out on Kangaroo Island, which would flare disastrously in early January.

Between them, the fires killed three…