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LA fires force Delta Goodrem to withdraw from NRL Las Vegas performance

Goodrem and the NRL had been in discussions for the Aussie to star in the season opener in Nevada.

  • Michael Chammas, Adrian Proszenko and Danny Weidler

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Barbara Rugendyke and daughter Sarah.

Barbara lost everything. The road to recovery has taken some unexpected turns

When the media left town and COVID hit, victims of the Black Summer bushfires were left to pick up the pieces. Five years on, here’s what happened to some of them.

  • Penry Buckley and James Brickwood
Bushfires. Cobargo, a town on the NSW south coast that has been devastated by bushfires yesterday. Photo shows a dead cow on the bottom of a dried out, burnt stream to the south west of the town. Photographed Wednesday 1st December 2020. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 200101

Five years on from Black Summer, climate crisis should not be a debate

The memory of Black Summer should remind Australia that climate change should not be subject to a debate, but a disaster response. 

  • The Herald's View
Kyle Moser and David Wilson lost everything when bushfires devastated the South Coast in 2019. Now, their rebuilt home is nearly ready for them to move into. (Video by Tom Compagnoni)
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Five years on, Cobargo residents rebuild

Kyle Moser and David Wilson lost everything when bushfires devastated the South Coast in 2019. Now, their rebuilt home is nearly ready for them to move into. (Video by Tom Compagnoni)

The incident control centres came as part of a response to the devastating Wooroloo bushfires of 2021.

The plan to tackle WA’s ‘intensifying’ bushfire threat

Western Australia’s firefighters will coordinate their bushfire attacking efforts from the confines of fortified shipping containers under a new trial.

  • Connor McGoverne
The Little Desert fire has burnt more than 90,000 hectares, or two-thirds of the national park.

Grampians residents warned to evacuate, cool change brings city relief

Eleven towns in Victoria’s west are at risk from a bushfire burning out of control near the Grampians, as the winds that carried a cool change to Melbourne brought new threats for firefighters.

  • Lachlan Abbott, Alexander Darling and Angus Delaney
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A woman and a dog walk around Albert Park this week.

Storms hit Geelong, Phillip Island as state braces for extended heatwave

As many 40,000 homes are without power and the SES has been swamped with calls for help after lightning and thunderstorms struck on Sunday evening.

  • Ashleigh McMillan, Angus Delaney and Roy Ward
Eucalyptus trees are a fire risk around the world.

The Australian species spreading all over the world and exacerbating bushfires

Eucalyptus trees are grown in plantations in nearly 100 countries and planted as city trees on every continent besides Antarctica.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The Little Desert bushfire threatened Dimboola on Monday, January 28, 2025. Facebook video posted by Jamie Chandler.

Heatwave raises fire danger across Victoria

The heat threatens to worsen existing fires in the Grampians, which are burning out of control as firefighters engage in back-burning to limit the spread.  

  • Angus Delaney
City dwellers have been considering a tree-change.

How to tell if that tree-change dream house is actually a nightmare

City-dwellers have been moving to the coast and country for a more relaxed lifestyle and cheaper housing, but there can be a hidden cost.

  • Jim Malo

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