Arson toll soars
More than 180 alleged arsonists have been arrested since the start of bushfire season with 29 blazes deliberately lit in southeastern NSW.
Bushfires
BP Australia makes big impact in crises
During last summer’s devastating bushfires, the supply of fuel to affected communities became a critical part of the emergency response.
Perth hills fire toll now 86 homes
As fires in the hills around Perth continue to rage out of control, locals count the true cost of the devastation.
Counting the cost of cataclysmic fire storm
In the middle of a wide swath of the fire-affected zone in Gidgeganup, fierce gusts still whip ash into the air along Dinsdale Road.
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.
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.
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