Bushfire royal commission
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
Latest
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.
- by Matt Dennien
‘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.
- by Mike Foley
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.
- by Mike Foley
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.
- by Laura Chung
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.
- by Karl Quinn
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.
- by Katina Curtis
‘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”.
- by Mike Foley
Explainer
Bushfires
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?
- by Sherryn Groch
Editorial
Bushfires
A stark reminder of bushfire danger
The enormous economic and health crisis brought on by the pandemic may have overshadowed the tragedy of last season's bushfires, but the recent spate of hot weather is a reminder of the potential dangers Australia faces again this summer.
- The Age's View
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.
- by Rob Harris and David Crowe
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