Australian Bushfires
Daily update ⋅ 30 April 2020
Insurance becoming unaffordable in Australia's disaster-prone regions after horror bushfires
SBS
Insurer Youi says its insurance costs will rise by double percentage points this year following Australia's bushfire crisis. Suncorp has also defended ...
US miner cuts NSW, Brisbane jobs
The Australian Financial Review
Washington | Peabody Energy boss Glenn Kellow has blamed a perfect storm of Australian bushfires and floods, collapsing natural gas prices, and the ...
CFS Chief Officer Mark Jones thanks SA in open letter as devastating fire season ends
The Advertiser
“Thanks must also go to the South Australian community who heeded our warning messages … and prepared their homes against bushfire threat,” he ...
Australia's hellish bushfire season made insurance more expensive, and climate change will too
Domain News
Insurance premiums were creeping up in areas with rising risk of fire and flood and experts have warned it could become unaffordable for those who ...
Inflation data show how bushfires, drought and COVID-19 pushed up grocery costs
ABC News
Australians have seen a rare rise in inflation, as a series of crises conspired to push up the cost of essential groceries even as many other prices hit ...
Coronavirus tax: Cost of living goes up as economy braces for $130b hit - Brisbane Times
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7 Sustainable Australian Lingerie Brands You Should Know About
InStyle
With the economic effects of the current coronavirus pandemic combined with the devastating Australian bushfires earlier this year, there's never been ...
CEFC should expand into bushfire resilience, adaptation, investor group says
RenewEconomy
“Investment in the resilience of our economy and communities to climate change has been sadly undervalued in Australia for too long and we must ...
Emissions fall for first time since 2015, as renewables set new records
RenewEconomy
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen for the first time since 2015, ... The Australian Energy Market Operator made similar observations in its ... impact of an intense Australian summer dominated by bushfires on national ...
International crafters link together to create beautiful quilts for bushfire-affected families
ABC News
As bushfire victims work to rebuild their lives after the devastating Australian summer, a group of quilters is stitching together beautiful handmade ...
Inequitable and opaque: insurers' bushfire submissions demand tax overhaul
Insurance News
... to the number of Australians who are uninsured or underinsured, insurers and brokers have urged in submissions to the bushfires royal commission.
