Australian Bushfires
Daily update ⋅ 29 March 2020
Bushfire renewal inspires top Australian painter Warwick Fuller to find beauty in ashes
ABC Technology and Games
The 72-year-old was in the Wolgan Valley in New South Wales, painting the aftermath of the devastating Gospers Mountain fire, which burned through ...
Defence Force ramps up coronavirus response efforts as bushfire operations come to quiet close
ABC Technology and Games
With little fanfare, military personnel this week formally ended their bushfire operations that had begun months before the peak of Australia's ...
How coronavirus is unfolding around Australia
The Canberra Times
In six months, farmer Margaret Yarnold has survived Australia's worst drought, a water crisis and lost a home to a deadly bushfire. Joining an hour-long ...
Because of COVID-19, China and Japan have found common ground
Independent Australia
Canada has sent additional firefighting personnel to help our friends in #Australia combat the bushfires that continue to ravage the continent. We are ...
Mallacoota's triple curse: drought, fire and creeping pestilence
Brisbane Times
“One day we had on board a couple of German tourists, and it turned out they'd only been in Australia for two days,” he says. “That got me thinking. It ...
From Country Road to Cotton On and RM Williams: Australian retail stores to close amid ...
9News
"Australia, and central to that fabric, R.M.Williams, has shown through the decades and through recent times with the drought and bushfires that we are ...
Inside Morrison's expert medical advice circle
Brisbane Times
... government's response to the bushfires that had ravaged almost every state and ... They declared that, despite no confirmed cases in Australia of what would ... She began her medical research career in the Royal Australian Navy ...
Dairy farmer planning for pasture bushfire recovery
The Australian Dairyfarmer
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Virgin Australia abandons big Chinese flight school while associate faces jail
Michael West News
The statement from Virgin Australia reads: “The operating conditions within our industry have altered significantly as a result of the Australian bushfires ...
Grubby insurers rip-off bushfire victims
The Socialist
The Insurance Council of Australia estimates that as many as 80% of all homeowners are underinsured. Approximately 1.8 million Australian ...
2020 hasn't lived up to expectations yet
Farm Weekly
... flooding and devastating bushfires, we were looking forward to 2020 with ... One thing for certain however is that Australian agriculture will play a key role in ... to leave Australia - it's just another challenge for Australian agriculture.
Coronavirus has shown Australian travellers have too high expectations of how the Government ...
ABC Technology and Games
Australians have prided themselves on their resilience, mateship, ... These traits were displayed with pride in the recent bushfire crisis which now ...
Guardian Australia records highest-ever traffic during COVID-19 pandemic
MuMbrella
That's off the back of Guardian Australia reaching a record 6.5 million Australians in January, in the wake of the country's bushfires, flooding and ...
In Solved!, Australian public policy academic Andrew Wear looks to other countries when it comes ...
The Canberra Times
The new decade sounded so promising - 2020 rolls trippingly off the tongue - and following a season of bushfires, then (hopefully) drought-breaking ...
Coronavirus: Petulant pointscorers show their true colours in a crisis Chris Kenny
The Australian
Mainstream Australians are handling this coronavirus crisis far better than members of the political/media class who display their usual petulance, ...
Coronavirus Australia: Bush outfitter RM Williams to close all stores
NEWS.com.au
The iconic bush outfitter said it had endured wars, droughts, and bushfires, but the coronavirus crisis had thrown the company into “unprecedented ...
Australian tourism and coronavirus: Domestic travel to drive recovery
Traveller
It was only a few months ago that tourism was being employed by governments as means of aiding the recovery of bushfire battered communities ...
Davis Love III's Georgia home destroyed by fire, family uninjured
Yahoo News Australia
Multiple units responded to the fire at approximately 5:20 a.m. local time, ... An Australian man remains stranded in India as the country goes into a ...
Australian punter puts NFL plans on hold
The Sydney Morning Herald
But the Bunyip native, who raised more than $14,000 to help the people of Gippsland devastated by last summer's bushfires, puts his pro football ...
Toowoomba schoolgirls stay home to cook meals for COVID-19 frontline workers
ABC News
They aslo provided up to 1,000 meals a day for rural firefighters during the summer bushfires. "We realised it was time to pull up our sleeves and do what ...
Two children have died of COVID-19 as Prince Charles is seen for first time since testing positive
Herald Sun
Prince Charles makes a speech at a dinner for the Australian bushfire relief and recovery effort at Mansion House in London on March 12. Picture: ...
Pop up mall a boost for resilient community
Mirage News
Whether it is bushfires or global pandemic, we need businesses to pull ... “Australians are resilient and despite new challenges and those they've ...
Government response to crises is shameful
Independent Australia
I'll add that none of the fire chiefs was told about the inclusion of 3,000 Australian Defence Force personnel and they found out via his press conference.
Coronavirus world live updates: One dying every eight minutes in UK
The Advertiser
Australia's future head of state, Prince Charles, has been spotted for the first time since ... The dinner was in aid of the Australian bushfire relief efforts.
The new powers governments are enacting to stop the spread of coronavirus
WAtoday
In Australia, the states and territories have enacted their public health laws. ... For example, it was used during the recent bushfires to take control of ...
Coronavirus: Labor urges goverment to enact tighter restrictions
The Australian
“We've seen that during the bushfires, we saw that in crises that the country has faced previously. I think that alone is going to make Australians feel ...
The new powers governments are enacting to stop the spread of coronavirus
The Age
For example, it was used during the recent bushfires to take control of ... The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee – the key government ...
