Bushfires claim three homes
Emergency powers have been invoked as Tasmania’s bushfire crisis deepens, with three homes lost and more expected to burn.
Bushfires
Fires see hundreds flee homes
Properties are reported to have been lost tonight as out of control bushfires menace communities in Tasmania’s Huon Valley.
Firefighters alert as weather cools
Tasmania faces an ongoing struggle to contain 30 serious bushfires, despite authorities believing the threat has eased.
Coal is to blame: Di Natale
Richard Di Natale blames energy policy for bushfires and says those moaning about outages should think of “sacrifices made during wartime”.
Homes in line of fire as states blister in the sun
The Tasmanian bushfires came as stifling heat across South Australia saw several temperature records broken yesterday.
‘It is simply not safe’
Tasmanians living near dozens of bushfires have been told to consider leaving their homes.
Tasmanian fireys ‘pushed to limit’
Mammoth firefighting efforts have failed to contain the worst of 27 bushfires burning across 720km in Tasmania.
Tasmania fires likely to worsen
Tasmanians have been warned bushfires already threatening towns, unique wilderness and tourism sites will likely worsen.
Evacuations, rescues as heat hits
An emergency warning in Gippsland has been downgraded to watch and act as a cool change hit after temperatures soared into the 40s.
Lightning sparks forest fire
An out-of-control bushfire is raging through a popular tourist destination around an hour from Hobart.
Drone halts waterbombing
Efforts to contain the Christmas Day bushfires in Tasmania had to be called off after a drone was seen flying in the area.
It’s tidings of bushfires for hostage families as climate bores seek converts at Christmas
Political correctness is on the march but it still hasn’t reached the backblocks of NSW.
‘Climate change sparked fires’
Annastacia Palaszczuk has lashed out at the federal government after it announced a probe into Qld’s land clearing policies.
Cuts to park burnoffs ‘caused bushfires’
The ‘unprecedented’ bushfires that burned through Queensland last week have sparked a political storm.
Fires stalking Queensland towns
Conditions labelled ‘catastrophic’ a day earlier eased slightly but are expected to remain dangerous for days.
Too late to leave, town told
A Queensland community is being told to take shelter and brace for a fast-moving bushfire on the state’s Fraser Coast.
More told to flee raging fires
More communities have been told to flee their homes this morning as “catastrophic” bushfires rage on.
Residents flee Qld bushfires
There are almost 140 fires burning across Queensland – eight of serious concern, and four of “extreme concern” with evacuations ordered.
The answer to our energy crisis
She’s a seasoned fixer, an American with no patience for political paralysis. Can Audrey Zibelman solve our power woes?
Coalition warms to cool burns
Shane Monk is joining with high-country cattlemen in their dream of a new era of fire-management based on centuries-old traditions.
Anger over collapse in AMP value
AMP’s biggest investors are urging the company to hose down bushfires seen to be damaging the business from the inside out.
Peat exposes families to poison
Two weeks after the Patrick’s Day bushfires, peat still burns and emits poisons, forcing families to evacuate or at least wear masks.
Vic blaze pumps out toxic gas
Out-of-control peat fires in Victoria’s southwest have forced the relocation of three schools and residents of an aged care facility.
Just not cricket
Australians come together in times of tragedy — bushfires, floods and when our cricket team brings the country into disgrace.
Turning to music in a crisis
Many notable musicians call the Tathra region home: the timing of the fires there this week can hardly have been worse.
Smoke clears, lawyers are sniffing
Slater and Gordon will look at whether the RFS’s response was adequate and whether the council should have done more.
Class action looms on Tathra fire
Law firm Slater and Gordon has invited victims of the Tathra bushfire to register their interest in a potential class action lawsuit.
Essential Energy defends standards
The power company whose infrastructure started the devastating Tahtra bushfire underspent its operating budget last financial year.
Dairy family starts hard grind
Farmers in Victoria’s southwest surveyed the damage caused by bushfires as trees and ruins smouldered.
Power cuts blamed for bushfires
Elite bushfire investigators are looking at the role power poles and wires played in sparking the fires that destroyed 65 homes.
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