Australian Bushfires
Daily update ⋅ 30 March 2020
A coronavirus cruise ship was about to dock in a bushfire-ravaged community until local doctors ...
ABC Technology and Games
A spokesman from the Australian Border Force said: "The ABF continues to encourage all passengers to adhere to social distancing guidelines while ...
NSW South Coast businesses struggle to survive bushfires and pandemic as visitors snub
ABC News
The NSW South Coast was one of the hardest hit Australian communities when catastrophic bushfires destroyed homes and took lives across the ...
Last year was the worst on record for Australia's environment
SBS
Raging bushfires and a devastating drought were just two of the main factors that lead to Australia recording its poorest ever environmental conditions ...
New report tells grim story of heat, drought and fire - Mirage News
Landlife: Bushfire Art
ABC News
An acclaimed Australian landscape painter is capturing life as it returns to a part of New South Wales hit hard by bushfire. The Gosper Mountains Fire ...
Knowledge is wealth
The West Australian
With Australia still reeling from an unprecedented summer of bushfires, the idea of building in a fire-prone area may be met with some reluctance.
Coronavirus latest blow to bushfire-affected businesses across the Blue Mountains
ABC News
It's a been quite a slow death since the bushfires in November so we're now in our sixth month of ... This has been the experience of Jason Cronshaw, who co-owns Blue Mountains Explorer Buses and Fantastic Aussie Tours.
Pete Murray Talks #1 Fire Fight Album Plus How To Support Artists Without Gigs
Hit 107
It was only a few weeks ago when Australia's biggest crisis was the bushfires, and we hit the ground rebuilding as quickly as possible. Part of that ...
Bushfire relief for South Australians reaches almost $16.5m
The Advertiser
Almost $16.5 million has been awarded to South Australians recovering from the devastating summer of bushfires. Small businesses struggling with ...
Our food supply has problems with equity, not quantity
Pursuit
In Australia we are used to full supermarket shelves brimming with a ... like extreme heat, drought, bushfires and pandemics can disrupt food supplies. Extreme heat and drought over the Australian summer affected the quality and ...
Pandemics and climate change mean it's time to consider ANZUS hospital ships
The Strategist (blog)
The natural interoperability of ANZUS states was evident in their collaboration on fighting Australia's recent bushfires. Firefighters from the US reported ...
Of Fire and Fallout: documenting KI's devastation and resilience
InDaily
Since then, the news cycle has moved on quickly from Australia's summer bushfires to become dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, but he still ...
Wildlife experts find hope amongst the ashes on Kangaroo Island
The Lead South Australia
Fires burned about 200,000 hectares of land, almost half the island, and especially the protected areas in which dunnarts are found. South Australia's ...
'Devastated' hotel sector eyes shot in the arm from quarantine measures
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tourism Accommodation Australia CEO Michael Johnson and its national ... regional communities which have been directly impacted by bushfires".
Australian CFOs anxious about risks and the coronacrisis
Consultancy.com.au
Australian CFOs anxious about risks and the coronacrisis ... Chief Financial Officers (CFO) in Australia are cautious about their plans for 2020, ... with the impact of the bushfires included, but the more recent impact of Covid-19 on the ...
Australians Asked To Give Up Their Vacant Homes To Help Healthcare Workers
10 daily
Find A Bed Au helped hundreds of Aussies who lost their homes during the devastating bushfires and now it's turning its attention towards the ...
Coronavirus updates LIVE: Stage 3 restrictions as Victoria's coronavirus cases increase by 56 to 821
The Age
Australia's death toll stands at 17, while 4111 Australians have tested ... and grape-growers affected by smoke damage caused by the recent bushfires, ... The three crew members, none of whom are Australian, are now in hospital, ...
Quarantined Aussies slam hotel conditions - Daily Mercury
Coronavirus Australia: South Australia discouraging tourists this Easter
NEWS.com.au
... Far West Coast of South Australia, sums up the sad reality facing bushfire-stricken communities all over Australia amid the coronavirus pandemic.
WA coronavirus LIVE: State's AMA president says cruise ship plan a 'dog's breakfast'
Brisbane Times
... park owners, many already devastated by the bushfire-disrupted summer. ... The Australian Medical Association's WA president Andrew Miller says ...
From 'millionaire' to homeless and happy, Hammer's remarkable tale
ABC News
... using money he found in parking meters to travel to Kangaroo Island, South Australia, and volunteer his labour rebuilding a bushfire-ravaged farm.
Australian wildlife has ongoing need for veterinary volunteers
Vet Practice magazine
Bushfires in all affected states have been extinguished, but there is an ongoing need to provide veterinary care to large numbers of affected animals, ...
A look inside an Australian coronavirus clinic that tests for cases of COVID-19
ABC News
Australia's Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the bushfire crisis over the summer played a part in reducing Australia's stockpile of equipment.
The immensity of Australia's pandemic media coverage
AdNews
The bushfires were mentioned in nearly 30% of stories when they were bad. But the coronavirus was above 80% on some days last week. That means ...
COVID-19 crisis: Medicare telehealth service will let Australians have doctor's appointments from ...
The West Australian
“I would also like to stop and just remember so many Australians who have recently been through the scourges of our drought and bushfires who are ...
Sydney news: Lucky escape after car flips, concerns over coronavirus rental loophole
ABC News
Cr Greenhill said support packages currently available to bushfire-affected areas were "awfully hard for people to actually qualify [for] and the money ...
WA coronavirus LIVE: Prime Minister announces two-person limit for gatherings in public
The Age
Australia's death toll stands at 16 with 3873 Australians testing positive to ... caravan park owners, many already devastated by the bushfire-disrupted summer. ... The Australian Medical Association's WA president Andrew Miller says ...
For Coca-Cola Amatil, 2020 is now the year to 'protect the business'
Brisbane Times
But the office these days for Coca-Cola Amatil boss Alison Watkins is neither swanky, nor high-rise. Ms Watkins, one of Australia's top businesswomen, ...
