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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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.
Bushfire victims slam inquiry: ‘hot air and arse-covering’
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’.
‘Don’t send anybody’: Conditions before fatal RFS crash revealed
A text message has revealed the danger of the conditions three hero American firefighters faced before crashing their plane, killing all on board, during the Black Summer bushfires: ‘Don’t send anybody and we’re not going back’.
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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.
‘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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
Government hedges on how fire relief will be funded
Less than $200 million in federal funding has gone out the door to bushfire affected communities from a multi-billion dollar fund lauded by the Morrison Government during the bushfire crisis.
Mambo legend helps new art grow from bushfire ashes
A dream-team of Australian and global artists, including Mambo creator Reg Mombassa and his daughter Lucy O’Doherty, are raising money for bushfire-related charities.
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