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<\/a><\/p>\nHundreds of Australians have been arrested for allegedly deliberately lighting Australian bushfires in only a matter of months.<\/span><\/p>\n Australia is currently enduring one of the worst bushfire crises in the nation’s history, with at least 25 people having been killed since September.<\/span><\/p>\n The Australian reported on Tuesday that 183 people have been arrested for lighting bushfires in New South Wales (NSW), Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.<\/span><\/p>\n In NSW alone 183 people have been charged or cautioned for bushfire-related offences since November, with 24 arrested for deliberately starting bushfires. While in Victoria 43 were charged in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n In Queensland, where the fires were worst in November, 101 people have been arrested for deliberately starting fires, almost 70 percent of whom were juveniles.<\/span><\/p>\n According to James Ogloff, the director of the Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University, approximately 50 percent of Australia’s bushfires are started by arsonists.<\/span><\/p>\n “They’re interested in seeing fire, interested in setting fire and quite often the information around how fires burn and accelerate excites them,” he told News Corp.<\/span><\/p>\n The University of Melbourne’s associate professor Janet Stanley said that arsonists, or “firebugs”, were typically young males aged either 12 to 24 or 60 and older.<\/span><\/p>\n “There is no one profile, but generally they seem to have a background of disadvantage, a traumatic upbringing and often have endured neglect and abuse as a child,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n