It comes as firefighters continue to battle blazes in Victoria, New South Wales and elsewhere.

Former Bendigo Youth Council mayor Khayshie Tilak Ramesh said there was a broad feeling of helplessness, as well as frustration and fear.

Helplessness, in that there were limited means for young people to help those in fire affected areas.

Fear at the scale of the fires burning in Australia, particularly when smoke haze was thick in the air at home.

And frustration at some of the decisions those leading the country had been making, at a time when people needed confidence.

Ms Tilak Ramesh felt for the communities devastated by fire. She hoped what they had endured would be a wake-up call for the nation's leaders to start, continue and follow through with discussions about climate resilience and Australia's changing weather conditions.

"Climate change has always been a very contentious issue," she said.

She said discussions about the fires needed to shift from whether climate change had caused them to climate change as a contributor, and to address those risks.

"Now's the time to get informed on the issues," Ms Tilak Ramesh said.

She also believed advocacy was a way young people could help.

Castlemaine teen Harriet O'Shea-Carre said the School Strike 4 Climate movement, of which she was a founding member, would continue calling for climate action.

The 15-year-old said rescuing those in immense danger and had lost their homes or people they loved should be the focus at the height of the bushfire crisis.

"Once the immediate danger is over the new focus should be on rebuilding these communities and helping to lower our carbon emissions to ensure this doesn't happen again," Ms O'Shea-Carre said.

She said the fires and the changing climate were interconnected.

"We need to implement some new, really strong plans so we can ensure this disaster, which is largely because of climate change, never happens again," Ms O'Shea-Carre said.

The teen said the politicisation of climate change was "so disappointing".

"We won't have a future unless we get serious. No matter which party is in the lead, they should be doing much, much more," she said.