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Black Saturday

September 2020

Talented, visible, but not in charge: Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.

Victorian crisis: no one's in charge - again

As if the Black Saturday bushfires and the royal commission had not happened, governance problems and lack of accountability have marred Victoria’s management of the second COVID-19 outbreak.

  • Michael Angwin

January 2020

Parts of NSW could experience extreme fire danger ratings on Thursday as a burst of hot and windy weather affects the state.

Hazard reduction may be fatal in a changing climate

Traditional firefighting and hazard reduction strategies may be lethal amid changing climate conditions, experts warn.

  • Bo Seo
Refusal to accept nuclear means a longer dependence on coal.

Virtue signalling as the nation burns

Greenies who back costly renewables over workable nuclear energy are doing more than anyone to keep coal in business.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Melbourne air quality the worst in the world on Tuesday.

Melbourne's smoky air 'worst in world'

Victorians started Tuesday breathing in some of the worst air in the world as the first day of the Australian Open qualifiers was delayed.

  • Kaitlyn Offer
Bernard Teague

Why the bushfire inquiry must include climate change

It's essential that climate change be part of an inquiry into the bushfires crisis, says former Supreme Court judge Bernard Teague, who led the Black Saturday royal commission.

  • Michael Pelly
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Nicola and Andrew Forrest have made a $70 million donation for bushfire relief.

Donation warnings as fundraising efforts top $200m

The bushfire crisis has generated more than $200 million in donations as the public, business and philanthropists rush to give. But does that create new problems?

  • Julie-anne Sprague
Scott Morrison

The fires dividing the nation

Scott Morrison will face pressure in the party room to address climate change as the fires and prolonged drought become an incendiary public issue.

  • Andrew Tillett
Scott Morrison

Morrison's bushfire recovery mission

The cost of bushfires could threaten Scott Morrison's promise to return the budget to surplus and be a drag on economic growth.

  • Andrew Tillett
Almost 50 fires were raging in Victoria on Friday evening, predominantly in East Gippsland, the alpine region and the northeast.

Heat, lightning risk of further Victoria fires

Temperatures are expected to creep higher on Saturday, with parts of Gippsland forecast to hit 40C and areas of the northeast to reach 45C.

November 2019

The climate change issue is burning new tracks on the Australian political map.

Burning new tracks on Australia's political map

A new, incessant political drumbeat surrounds the fires still raging in eastern Australia, and that is climate change.

  • Andrew Clark
Bernard Teague

Victoria faces horrendous loss of life from the 'wrong kind of fire'

The Black Saturday royal commission chairman says the threat is similar to that in Greece, France and California.

  • Tom McIlroy

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