From the grief of losing loved ones to rebuilding homes and starting lives over, the pain of the Black Summer bushfires is very real on the south coast of NSW. Five families share their stories.
With a death toll in the billions a massive surveillance operation using cutting edge technology will be rolled out to discover which endangered animals survived last summer’s bushfires.
With no power, no phone and no internet, Hamish Payne kept the only supermarket in Bermagui open to provide essential supplies for as long as possible during the Black Summer fires.
Victims who lost their homes in the Black Summer bushfires have slammed the royal commission report into future disaster management, describing the inquiry as ‘a lot of hot air and arse-covering’.
Comedian Celeste Barber has hailed NSW firefighters as “rockstars like no others”, while looking on the bright side following a Supreme Court decision on how $51 million she raised for bushfire relief can be spent.
A woman who lost her home in the bushfires was initially knocked back from Red Cross funding because she couldn’t provide a utility bill, the Royal Commission has heard. It comes as experts told the Commission climate change is leading to hotter and drier droughts. LIVE UPDATES
People hit hard by the NSW summer bushfires will be offered financial help under a new plan to target those who have not yet claimed support. The $8.5m program involves help from local councils, Service NSW, Resilience NSW and charities.
Millions of dollars have announced to rebuild bushfire-ravaged towns but Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the debris clean up program had been “very difficult” for the states to roll out, with work still ‘months’ from completion.
What happens when more than 1000 people are left to their own devices to fight for their lives in an inferno? In this podcast you will find out, and you will meet the best of Australians.
NSW’s most devastating bushfire season on record has officially ended, eclipsed by a new crisis — COVID-19. But with the 2020 fire season just months away, the RFS warns there’s no time for complacency as it reflects on a nightmare summer.
A new $1 million fund has been launched today by News Corp Australia to help Australia’s bushfire victims in their recovery.
The “long haul” of trauma recovery is very familiar to Lifeline counsellor Stephanie Robinson. The CEO of the central Western Division of the support service has transferred from years of helping drought-stricken farmers to the fire-ravaged south coast.EXCLUSIVE PODCAST
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