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How our Australian wildlife is recovering post-bushfires. Koalas in recovery at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital. 11-year-old Finley Kelly with a happy koala. Picture: NIGEL HALLETT

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Australian koalas after the bushfires

While the road to recovery for the remaining singed survivors is a long one, it’s not without thanks to a tireless network of rescuers who have ensured the care of our nation’s threatened species.

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Black Summer: ‘The trauma remains, we don’t just move on’

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.

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WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS SPECIAL. MUST TALK WITH PIC ED JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE PUBLISHING., Caption: An echidna in burnt out bushland on the South Coast of NSW Date Taken: 2020 Location: South Coast, NSW Credit: WWF-Australia

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Spy cameras to reveal cost of Black Summer bushfires

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.

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COMM EDITORIAL. THANKS A MILLION. Hamish Payne , Woolworths Narooma store manager, has been nominated for Thanks A Million after showing great leadership during Black Summer fires and COVID. With colleague Wendy (no last name given). Picture: Jonathan Poyner

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Bushfire hell: ‘It was like watching sunrise in reverse’

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.

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***HOLD EMBARGO FOR SAT TELE*** DEADLY class A asbestos remains littered along the main street of Cobargo five months after bushfires devastated the south coast town. Testing found almost half of destroyed properties across NSW contained asbestos and the executive director of the NSW Disaster Recovery Office said finding a place to dump it was like doing a jigsaw puzzle. But Cobargo resident Kathryn Doolin said the waste remaining on the main street on Cobargo was impacting the mental health of residents. “It is not good enough – full stop,” she said. “Action can be taken on Covid-19, but not (on) our exposure of asbestos? That Class ‘A’ Asbestos is incredibly deadly. Our mental health is suffering.” Two months ago when asked about the asbestos in Cobargo Bega Valley Shire Council mayor Kristy McBain said: “It’s obviously not ideal.” “I don’t think any council in Australia could have anticipated the level of asbestos … definitely I understand people’s frustration,” she said. https://www.facebook.com/105794460971188/photos/pcb.155989815951652/155986515951982/?type=3&theater

Bushfire clean-up still ‘months’ from completion

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.

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Mates under fire: The NSW south coast ‘temporal saints’

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.

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‘It’s over’: RFS chief reflects on NSW’s summer from hell

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.

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‘We won’t forget you’: $1m to fire victims

‘We won’t forget you’: $1m to fire victims

A new $1 million fund has been launched today by News Corp Australia to help Australia’s bushfire victims in their recovery.

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Surviving long haul trauma of the NSW bushfires

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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NSW RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons pictured at their headquarters in Sydney Olympic Park. Picture: Jonathan Ng

How horror bushfire season changed RFS chief forever

Fire chief Shane Fitzsimmons says he will always remember the impact the state’s dreadful fire season — which led to 25 deaths, including six of his own men — had on him and the people of NSW. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

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Ex-Wallaby’s very Aussie reaction to surviving bushfire

Former Wallaby Al Baxter was fearsome on a rugby field but on New Year’s Eve he joined more than 1000 people in a terrifying fight for life on Malua Bay beach. A whiskey in his beach bag settled his nerves after a frightening day. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

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NSW minister Andrew Constance with wife Jennifer at bushfire burnt Pretty Point in Malua Bay on the NSW South Coast. Picture Rohan Kelly

Constance gives date for political resignation

Just hours after clarifying resignation rumours and declaring that “it took a bloody big fire for me to realise how wrong politics is in this country”, Bega MP Andrew Constance has made a final call on his future.

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Constance: ‘The day I almost died three times’

Constance: ‘The day I almost died three times’

For Andrew Constance, daily life is hard. The repercussions of the shock of New Year’s Eve morning are still revealing themselves to the Bega MP who contemplated his fate three times as a fatal inferno roared towards Malua Bay on the NSW south coast. HEAR HIS STORY IN OUR EXCLUSIVE PODCAST

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Firefighters are relieved after grey skies and rain brought an end to dry conditions which were responsible for multiple fire on the tablelands. Shane Given

Bad news for farmers despite rain downpour

Water is starting to fill dams on bone-dry land in the state’s far west and south as a rain system moves over NSW off the back of ex-tropical cyclone Esther, but meteorologists warn the downpour will not be able to break the drought.

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