$366m disaster bill for Defence
The cost to defence from responding to natural disasters including Covid, the Black Summer fires and east-coast floods over the last four years has risen to more than $350m.
Bushfires
Huge call on holidays ahead of bushfire chaos
As the country prepares for a blistering and dry summer with an increased threat of bushfires, the nation’s key minister has made a call on his holiday plans.
Portable digs stockpiled ahead of summer heat
The federal government will stockpile portable emergency accommodation ahead of an anticipated hot and dry summer as authorities fear a bad bushfire season this year.
Fewer hazard reduction burns fuel fire fears
Australia’s bushfire season is heating up, but in Queensland the vegetation growth fuelled by La Nina has residents concerned.
‘Deeply concerned’: Victorian union’s bushfire warning
The Andrews government has been warned about out-of-date fire equipment, reduced resources and crumbling infrastructure.
One state preparing for extreme fire
One state is bracing for extreme bushfires this week as the country officially enters the El Nino period.
Accused bushfires developer surfaces again
An unlicensed property entrepreneur who vanished after pocketing the insurance payouts of victims of the Black Summer bushfires is now attempting to sell critical infrastructure to developing nations.
State on high alert as bushfire intensifies
Several ‘prepare to leave’ notices have been issued as firefighters battles to control widespread bushfires.
State tags $2.3bn for extra disaster recovery funding
The NSW government has announced an extra $2.3bn to shore up the state’s defences against natural disasters and provide ‘vital’ relief after last year’s generational floods in northern NSW.
Residents on alert as temperatures soar across nation
Sydney temperatures will be as high as 36 as a string of hot days hits Australia’s northeast and puts a number of Queensland towns at risk of bushfire.
Hot topic as helicopter drama heats up
The nation’s two most populous states are staring down a hot and dry summer without a high-capacity helicopter that can waterbomb fires at night.
‘Leave immediately’: QLD bushfire warning
Emergency warnings have been sent out for two Queensland towns as bushfires rage.
Atomic 6 boss blamed Covid for his Black Summer debacle
An unlicensed property entrepreneur who sold fire-resistant homes to victims of the Black Summer bushfires blamed Covid-19 for delays in the delivery, and has since vanished.
‘Not again’: Bushfires hit one state
Residents in a regional Queensland town are being warned to prepare to leave their properties as bushfires continue to burn.
Fire victims handed over payouts … but still living in sheds
Andrew Lennox arrived on the NSW south coast in the aftermath of Black Summer promising big things to people who had just lost everything. Then he vanished.
Simplicity transformed into grandeur: try this honey cake
Left to sit in the cool confines of the refrigerator overnight the biscuit softens, creating a rich, creamy cake-like consistency, its many magical layers only revealed upon slicing.
Hope springs eternal as farmers eye fire season
Images of Steve Shipton shooting his herd of cattle captured the imagination of a nation grappling with the devastation wrought by the Black Summer bushfires.
Act now: residents told to prepare for fire season
Jon Concannon remembers when the horizon turned red as a wall of fire advanced towards his home in Coolagolite on New Year’s Eve in 2019.
Bushfire threat returns to communities still struggling
Fire-ravaged NSW communities remain in ruins more than three-years after the Black Summer fires as the pandemic, floods and war in Ukraine diverted national attention from rebuilding efforts.
‘We are watching’: Cops warn firebugs
Police have issued a warning to potential arsonists after a volunteer firefighter was charged with lighting bushfires.
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