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Scientists and the state government are divided over the DBCA’s prescribed burning program.

War of words erupts over Western Australia’s prescribed burning program

As LA faces the mass destruction of multiple wildfires, dissent is building over the prescribed burning regime for the shrinking, drying forests of WA’s South West.

  • Sarah Brookes

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Nazari with rescue personnel in the helicopter that winched him to safety.

Rescued Kosciuszko hiker Hadi Nazari released from hospital

The 23-year-old was discharged from Cooma Hospital in NSW on Friday and is expected to return to Melbourne with family.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
Hadi Nazari being winched to safety at Kosciuszko National Park on Wednesday.

The stunning moment hikers found Hadi on a hillside

For 13 days, searchers combed the dense alpine forest of the Kosciuszko National Park looking for missing hiker Hadi Nazari. As hope began to fade, a speck appeared in the distance.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola, Angus Delaney and Cassandra Morgan
A seaplane has crashed into the water off Rottnest Island.

Three people still missing after seaplane crashes off Rottnest Island

Water Police and several private boats rushed to the scene after the privately owned aircraft crashed into waters near Thompson Bay shortly after take-off.

  • Jesinta Burton
Lifeguard Mark Scotland scans the surf at Torquay.

There is always a critical moment in a rescue. That’s when Mark is most fearful

Decorated surf lifesaver Mark Scotland has plucked countless people from the water. Why are more people going to such remote locations?

  • Benjamin Preiss
Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan and Sabrina Ahmed drowned at Conspicuous Cliff beach near Walpole in the Great Southern. Picture: Supplied

Husband, wife drown while saving daughter at Great Southern beach

Two people have died after being pulled from the water at a beach in Western Australia’s Great Southern. 

  • Cameron Myles
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A search is under way for a 15-year-old boy swept off a rock shelf at North Avoca Beach on Tuesday.

Search for boy missing off Central Coast beach to resume on Christmas Day

A large-scale sea and air search was launched after reports the 15-year-old was swept off a rock shelf at about 3pm on Tuesday.

  • Riley Walter
The scene of a house fire in Meadow Springs on Sunday.

Young boy dies in Meadow Springs house fire

A four-year-old boy has died in a house fire just days before Christmas.

  • Cameron Myles
Grampians bushfire burns on Saturday.

Halls Gap evacuated as authorities warn Grampians fire will burn for weeks

An emergency warning to evacuate immediately was also issued for a small town in the Macedon Ranges on Saturday, but was later downgraded.

  • Lachlan Abbott and Ashleigh McMillan
How earthquakes strike.

Scientists know where the big earthquakes will hit. They just don’t know when

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure quakes, and are we doing enough to prepare?

  • Sherryn Groch

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