WA fires under control, firey injured
Fire authorities in WA have stopped bushfires at Avon Ridge Estate and Shady Hills Estate which posed an overnight threat.
Bushfires
Zoo rallies after Black Summer horrors
One year after Mogo’s zookeepers became makeshift firefighters, thick smoke and red skies have been replaced with clean air and an overflowing car park.
Haunted and scarred, but worse … forgotten
After fighting bushfires for more than 40 years, Bruce Allen is still struggling to describe the fire behaviour he saw on New Year’s Eve in 2019.
Crews hope for relief from coastal blaze
Fire crews in WA are likely to enjoy a small window of relief over the weekend as cooler temperatures help ease the Red Gully blaze which has burnt thousands of hectares.
Pandemic reveals ugly Aussie truth
Changing a word in our national anthem is well intentioned, but the states’ Covid response shows we are anything but one.
ABC’s faux outrage insults our intelligence
When ABC Chair Ita Buttrose and her ilk deny entrenched bias against conservatives, it goes beyond disrespect.
Golf nirvana rises from the ashes
After being battered by bushfires and border closures, Kangaroo Island is swinging back to life as work begins on what will be one of the world’s must-play golf courses.
Hellish work if you can get it
The RATs are choppered in and out of Tasmania’s remote areas to fight bushfires. It sounds glamorous — but nothing could be further from the truth.
Fraser Island fire response probe ordered
Annastacia Palaszczuk has requested the review, with the fires having so far wiped out half of the world heritage-listed landmark’s vegetation.
Bushfire ravages home as heat hits
An out-of-control bushfire significantly damaged one home and threatened dozens more in Sydney’s west on Sunday.
Millions spent on koala ‘census’
A major audit of koala habitats will count the total number of marsupials throughout Australia, examining how well protected they are from bushfires.
The effects of massive fires can reach the stratosphere and linger for months
Smoke plumes from Australia’s fires created an ozone-layer hole, but the extent of damage from such novel weather events remains unclear.
Island on fire waits for rain to contain the flames
Evacuations were ordered as one of the first major bushfires of the season tears across Queensland’s Fraser Island.
‘We won’t leave the village … this is where we live’
As a firefront ripped through the tiny NSW south coast town of Nerrigundah on New Year’s Eve, terrified residents ran to the one building that might save them.
Disaster response bill on fast track
Scott Morrison will try to ram new legislation through the Senate to give the commonwealth new powers to intervene in natural disasters.
Fire victims burnt by $100k rebuild rules
Regulations adding more than $100,000 to the cost of constructing an average house in bushfire-prone areas have left many fire victims unable to rebuild.
Do we need homes among the gum trees?
It’s irresponsible to keep building new homes in the line of fire. Yet extensive construction continues in bushfire-prone areas.
Happy trails: ravaged wilderness back on track
Metre by metre, hardy track workers are replacing 117km of Tasmania’s bushwalking trails destroyed by the 2018-19 bushfires.
Flying Fox to rescue with fire-fighting air fleet
Linfox group and Coulson Aviation have temed up to create Australia’s first high-capacity fire and emergency aviation service, operating both day and night.
Achieving pragmatic climate policies
A Deloitte report on weather, bushfires and climate change provoked many views, and sadness as AusPost boss resigns
Federal powers firmly in spotlight
Scott Morrison now has the cover to bookend the political disaster of last summer’s bushfire season and address a gaping hole in the national disaster response.
PM to control crisis response
Australia needs new powers to intervene in natural disasters and override the states, bushfire inquiry finds.
Clearer lines needed in hazard reduction
Proposed legislation suggests that landholders should be able to more easily obtain approvals for hazard-reduction work.
Big hand to help get on with business
After an extraordinary and challenging 2020, The Biggies will celebrate the positive impact of business in the community.
Out of the ashes, a vision for the future
When Peter and Vanessa Williams lost their Mogo home and pottery business in the Black Summer fires, the pain was so immense they never wanted to return.
Irate fireys seek millions in compo
The Andrews government faces a compensation suit from three veteran volunteer firefighters over 137 ‘improper’ charges.
Nothing sweet about this ‘hellish’ 2020
After baring ‘hellish’ fires and then a pandemic, Mogo Lolly Shop owner Theresa Matthews wants to erase the past 12 months from her memory.
‘Carry the can for neighbour’s land if you want to rebuild’
A bushfire victim’s plans to rebuild were stymied by a local council and its ‘insane’ green-tape stipulations.
Charity criticism rejected – they didn’t sit on donations
The charities regulator has defended non-profit organisations criticised for being too slow in distributing almost $650m.
Grassland recovery worries fireys
Thriving grassland and crop growth west of the Great Dividing Range has fire services concerned the fuel load could become a tinderbox over the summer months.
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