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Laura Tingle

Bushfire crisis burns like Morrison's Katrina moment

The Prime Minister's inexplicable clumsiness over the bushfire crisis mirrors the disarray in the Coalition's climate policies.

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Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in US history. It displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The damage was estimated at $US 100 billion, and more than 1000 people are thought to have died.

Feeling the heat: Prime Scott Morrison at Thursday's media conference responding to the bushfire crisis. James Alcock

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