Black Saturday
Opinion
Bushfires
Bracing for a bad bushfire season, this year I’m packing two emergency kits
For some people, mementos may be considered “stuff” – unimportant, unnecessary and replaceable. For others like me, these items are the opposite.
- by Shona Hendley
Latest
‘We were extremely lucky’: This family narrowly escaped death on Black Saturday, but Kinglake is still home
The Age photographed the Nash family in 2009 after the fire destroyed all of their possessions bar the clothes line and a cubby house. We revisited them as The Age turns 170, and they say they can get through anything.
- by Carolyn Webb
Exclusive
Climate crisis
Burnout and trauma: huge climate cost on emergency workers revealed
One type of injury suffered by police and firefighters leapt by 50 per cent during the Black Saturday and Black Summer bushfire disasters.
- by Bianca Hall
Exclusive
Victoria bushfires
Forest fire redundancies ‘risk emergency responses’
Victoria’s Environment Department is looking to make 208 people redundant in its bushfire and forest services group, including 118 in forest fire operations.
- by Rachel Eddie
Triumph and tragedy: A front-page view of history
As The Age celebrates 170 years, we look back on some of the most notable major events featuring on our front pages over the decades.
Opinion
Bushfires
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.
- by Ian Brown
Exclusive
Victoria bushfires
Court slaps CFA over decision that ‘sent a shiver down the spine’ of CFA volunteers
The CFA rejected the medical opinions of six experts and cut compensation to a traumatised firefighter based on the assessment of one dissenting psychiatrist.
- by Cameron Houston
Exclusive
Victoria Police
Black Saturday arsonist who killed 10 released from prison
Brendan Sokaluk, a former Country Fire Authority volunteer, was freed on Tuesday after serving 15 years for deliberately lighting a blaze in the Latrobe Valley.
- by Alex Crowe and Cameron Houston
Updated
Bushfires
Fire-ravaged towns warned to brace for ‘worst fire day’ in four years
Forecast extreme heat, high winds and dry lightning mean Wednesday will be “a very dangerous and difficult day across Victoria”, Premier Jacinta Allan said.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
Greg lost his home in the Black Summer bushfires. Now he’s building one that’s disaster-proof
The Bushfire Building Council of Australia has developed free architectural-designed plans to protect your house. Just lock up and leave, the house will look after itself.
- by Julie Power
Opinion
Drought
I lost everything in the Black Summer bushfires. Two years later, I am losing hope.
The lack of meaningful emissions-reduction targets by both major parties indicates that future generations will be locked into climate warming above 1.5 degrees.
- by Jann Gilbert
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