Bushfire SupportFormer Wallaby Al Baxter was fearsome on a rugby field but on New Year’s Eve he joined more than 1000 people in a terrifying fight for life on Malua Bay beach. A whiskey in his beach bag settled his nerves after a frightening day. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Bushfire SupportJust hours after clarifying resignation rumours and declaring that “it took a bloody big fire for me to realise how wrong politics is in this country”, Bega MP Andrew Constance has made a final call on his future.
ExclusiveBushfire SupportFor Andrew Constance, daily life is hard. The repercussions of the shock of New Year’s Eve morning are still revealing themselves to the Bega MP who contemplated his fate three times as a fatal inferno roared towards Malua Bay on the NSW south coast. HEAR HIS STORY IN OUR EXCLUSIVE PODCAST
Bushfire SupportWater is starting to fill dams on bone-dry land in the state’s far west and south as a rain system moves over NSW off the back of ex-tropical cyclone Esther, but meteorologists warn the downpour will not be able to break the drought.