Australian authorities have arrested 183 people on bushfire related offenses, some for deliberately setting fires that have ravaged parts of the nation.
Police in the state of Queensland have determined that arsonists lit 103 of the blazes. 98 culprits have been identified, 67 of them juveniles. People have also been arrested in the states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania on bushfire-related charges. 
In New South Wales, which has borne the brunt of the blazes, 24 people have been apprehended and charged since Nov. 8 with intentionally setting the bushfires, The Australian said. 
Twenty-five people have died as a result of the bushfires since they began. Thousands of homes have been destroyed and hundreds of millions of animals and livestock have been killed.