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Hazard reduction shouldn’t be hazardous. So why the escaped fire at Oxford Falls?

Have we learnt all the lessons from our 2020 Black Summer disaster? Last weekend’s blaze suggests that we haven’t.

  • Ian Brown

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison dries a flood-damaged court in Brisbane in early March.

PM says Qld trying to ‘weaponise’ flood, as insurers call for disaster deals

The Insurance Council of Australia has calling for disaster resilience funding deals between states and territories to flow after the Commonwealth agreed to a landmark $741 million flood package.

Recovery after severe flooding hit Lismore on March 1.

‘Lessons have not been learnt’: Royal commission being ignored, experts say

Former emergency and defence force chiefs say the federal government is dragging its heels on key natural disaster recommendations made nearly two years ago.

  • Mike Foley
CSIRO climate scientist Pep Canadell says climate change is the “overwhelming factor” driving a massive increase in bushfires in Australia.

CSIRO study proves climate change driving Australia’s 800% boom in bushfires

Global warming is changing Australia’s weather for the worse and a new study shows for the first time this is the key driver of deadly bushfires.

  • Mike Foley
Balmoral residents Gabriel stands with his parents Helena and Justin in the days after their Balmoral home was destroyed by the Green Wattle Creek fire in December 2019.

After the fires, the Kams moved into a tent, then a caravan. Now they can finally rebuild

The Kam family lost their house and all their belongings in the NSW bushfires that tore through the Southern Highlands in the days before Christmas two years ago. Since then, they’ve been fighting to rebuild their home.

  • Laura Chung
Twenty-four years after being rescued from a landslide on the mountain, Stuart Diver is Thredbo’s resort operations manager.

Thredbo’s Stuart Diver on how to survive a natural disaster, or a pandemic

Thredbo disaster survivor Stuart Diver is putting his personal knowledge to good use in a new podcast about natural disasters and how to survive them.

  • Karl Quinn
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Jenny Morrison and her husband Prime Minister Scott Morrison visit the Penrith unit of the NSW State Emergency Service on Saturday.

New climate service to help Australia bounce back from natural disasters

A new Australian Climate Service will be established to guide the national recovery agency as it looks at ways to make the country more resilient to future natural disasters.

  • Katina Curtis
Emergency Services Minister David Littleproud.

‘Disgusted’: Littleproud lashes telcos for failure to communicate

The Emergency Services Minister says telcos have failed to provide information on critical infrastructure to help fireys make “life and death decisions”.

  • Mike Foley
Dashcam Captures Speed Of Bushfire.

Storms, tornadoes and explosions: How bushfires are getting stranger

As Australia’s fire seasons intensify and unlikely parts of the globe burn, how is the behaviour of fire changing? How have people managed fire in the past? And how might we live with the big blazes of the future?

  • Sherryn Groch
Attorney-General Christian Porter.

Porter narrows national emergency powers in peace deal with backbench

New laws to declare a national state of emergency will go to Parliament within days after the Attorney-General made a number of concessions to colleagues.

  • Rob Harris and David Crowe

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