Politicians Fiddle While Australia Burns

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- For weeks now, I’ve not been sleeping properly. Lying down has provoked paroxysmal, bronchial coughing, as drifting clouds from bushfires around Australia’s east coast have settled on my home city of Sydney. A thrumming headache has been a constant. Taking my daughter for an asthma checkup last week, we walked through haze filled with swirling motes of ash. Tuesday was the worst yet. As I wrote this article, a building fire alarm went off in Bloo