Bushfires

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An official Tathra Donations gofundme page has also been established with the goal of reaching $500,000. Photos Twitter /Jessie Collins/ Go Fund Me https://www.gofundme.com/tathra-fire-donations-official

Essential Energy defends standards

The power company whose infrastructure started the devastating Tahtra bushfire underspent its operating budget last financial year.

SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES

The Nation

Adam Wiggins, Tathra RFS Captain (left), and Gerard Hanscombe, Bega Fire and Rescue Captain, at Tathra on the NSW South Coast after the weekend's devastating fires. Picture: Ray Strange.

Firefighting ‘turf war’ rejected

Firefighters say it is “a shame” their efforts at Tathra have been undermined by union “political point-scoring”.

Greg Brown

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Hazmat crews are seen spraying asbestos bonding agent in the NSW coastal town of Tathra, after homes were destroyed by fire, causing the release of the harmful building product into the atmosphere. Wednesday, March 21, 2018. More than 70 houses and businesses were destroyed by a bushfire in the days before. (AAP Image/Perry Duffin) NO ARCHIVING

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.

SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES

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Photograph taken by photographer Alex Coppel of a CFA fire truck leaving area as smoke from a giant blaze so big it resembles a nuclear explosion, burning close to Labertouche near Pakenham in Bunyip State Forest, east of Melbourne during Victorian Black Saturday Bushfires on 07/02/2009. Pic Alex CoppelSTRICT CONDITIONS: There are 50 pictures in this assignment which are for use in The Australian's 50th anniversary magazine. They can not be used elsewhere until after the 15th July 2014. No use is permitted without contacting the Picture Editor of The Australian. HS25

Tax fight holds up disaster payouts

Black Saturday bushfire victims who won a record-breaking class action will be forced to wait longer for their legal saga to end.

PIA AKERMAN

The Nation

21/03/2018 Ian and Alison Grummett amongst the remains of their woolshed and machinery at their property in Terang. They also lost 70 dairy cows in the fire that burnt most of their property on Saturday night. Picture David Geraghty / The Australian.

Dairy family starts hard grind

Farmers in Victoria’s southwest surveyed the damage caused by bushfires as trees and ruins smouldered.

SUE NEALES

National Affairs

‘Are you capable of decisions?’

Alan Jones savages Troy Grant, deriding the NSW government’s response to the Tathra bushfires as ‘utterly inadequate’ | LISTEN

Rhian Deutrom

Tathra bushfiresThe Nation

Local distraught resident-Jani Klotz, 52 years old was visibly upset at the first sight of her home at15 Ocean View Terrace in Tathra, during the organised bus tour of the area. Around 40 Tathra residents were bussed back into the devastated town this morning.The seaside town of Tathra on the NSW south coast has been devastated by a large bushfire. Residents who were evacuated are now keen to return to start the clean up but are been refused entry by the authorities. Picture Gary Ramage

Utter despair as townsfolk return

Joni Klotz says she felt “utter despair” yesterday when she saw her home at Tathra reduced to rubble.

Greg Brown

The Nation

Large fires burnt through South West Victoria, destroying homes, sheds and thousands of hectares of farm land.Hay shed at the Moyles family farm, PathfinderPicture: ANDY ROGERS

Fears over mental fallout from fire

The focus of dealing with the devastating grass fires that swept southwest Victoria has shifted to the deeply affected farming families.

SUE NEALES

The Nation

A man cutting tree branches with a chainsaw. Picture: iStock

Resident anger at tree laws

Bega Valley Shire Council is facing calls to reduce its restrictions on tree clearingfollowing the devastating Tathra bushfires.

SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES and Greg Brown

The Nation

20/03/2018: John Hiatt, deputy coroner in 1994, at his home in Penrith. Bob Carr rejected a 1996 coroner's recommendation to amalgamate the city and rural fire brigades into one unit. The recommendation came after a two year inquiry following the 1994 bushfires. Pic by James Croucher

Keelty enlisted for Tathra probe

The NSW government has drafted former AFP commissioner Mick Keelty to head an inquiry into the Tathra bushfire.

ANDREW CLENNELL EAN HIGGINS

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Houses lost after help ‘ignored’

More houses could have been saved in Tathra if the rural fire service had accepted an offer of help, former coroner says.

NICOLA BERKOVIC

The Nation

Australian Greens Leader Richard Di Natale speaks during debate in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, March 19, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

PM on climate ‘like US on guns’

Greens Leader Richard Di Natale has doubled down after yesterday blaming government inaction on climate change for two bushfires.

Rachel Baxendale

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Some of the more than 70 houses and businesses destroyed by a bushfire in the coastal town of Tathra, Monday, March 19, 2018. RFS and NSW Fire and Rescue continue to mop up and douse smouldering homes after a devastating fire ripped through the community yesterday and overnight. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Council accused of negligence

Residents have accused authorities of negligence after failing to heed warnings about the lack of hazard reduction.

Greg Brown and SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES

National Affairs

Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale speaking in the Senate Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Greens fire up climate row

Richard Di Natale is resisting internal pressure to resign amid accusations he lacks empathy after blaming inaction on climate change for bushfires.

Joe Kelly and ANDREW BURRELL

Tathra bushfireThe Nation

The Cochrane family, son Tate, Mum Leanne. Dad Gary and Son Sam put on a brave face after losing everything in yesterday's devastating fires at Tathra on the NSW South Coast. Pictrures: Ray Strange.

Family spirit unbroken by fires

The Cochranes lost their family home in Sunday’s horror bushfire but their stoicism and optimism survived untouched.

Greg Brown

Media

ABC defends fire warning alert

The ABC issued an emergency warning alert for the Tathra fire “as soon as it was notified’’.

STEPHEN BROOK and SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES

The Nation

Cobden fire zone. Newly wed Rebecca Jones sifts through the remains of her newly renovated home in pouring rain at Cobden. Picture: David Caird

Despair for devastated farmers

Victorian farmers are counting the cost of devastating grassfires that swept across the state’s southwest at the weekend.

SUE NEALES and Richard Ferguson

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The quiet seaside town of Tathra is coming to grips with massive loss of property from a devastating bushfire that swept through the area. Up to 70 homes were destroyed in the inferno.Picture Gary Ramage

Lives ranked second for Greens

Richard Di Natale and the Greens have no shame as they politicise devastating bushfires in NSW and Victoria and the Top End cyclone.

Geoff Chambers

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An aerial view of the devastation caused by the bushfire that swept through Tathra yesterday. MUST CREDIT 7 NEWS

Tathra declared disaster area

The RFS has downgraded its alert level to ‘advice’ tonight as bushfire activity eased, although it remains uncontained.

Greg Brown and Sam Buckingham-Jones

The Nation

18/03/2018: Phil & Maree Beasley standing in the burnt out remains of their home in Terang, South West Victoria, after a bushfire swept through the area. Stuart McEvoy for The Australian.

Wedding guests ‘in line of fire’

A wedding party of 150 people came close to disaster as fires raged throughout the weekend in Victoria’s south-west.

RICHARD FERGUSON TESSA AKERMAN

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