Australian Bushfires
Daily update ⋅ 5 June 2020
Australian Defence Force's prescribed burn on Mount Bundey comes under fire in the Northern ...
ABC News
Early season controlled burns are common practice in northern Australia, with most land-users lighting fires in the cooler months to protect country ...
Bushfire royal commission: One in three miss bushfire aid grants
The Australian
Services Australia deputy chief executive Michelle Lees told the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements on Thursday that ...
Australia is not doing enough to preserve biodiversity
News - The University of Sydney (press release)
However, Australia's biodiversity was in a precarious state even before the fires. The 2020-1 IUCN Red List ranks Australia sixth in the world for the ...
India, Australia strengthen defence ties as China tensions loom
Yahoo News Australia
... which took place after two earlier scheduled visits by Morrison to India were postponed because of the Australian bushfires and the pandemic.
Australia steps up relationship with India - 9News
Services Australia puts face matching to work for bushfire relief payments
iTnews
Australia's national facial biometrics matching database was put to the test during the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires to verify the identities of ...
Voice of Real Australia: Summer's victims still need us
Whyalla News
For some, bushfires have been single central focus of their lives since late ... And then yesterday the head of Australia's bushfire recovery effort has ...
Services Australia Used Face Scanning For Bushfire Payments
ChannelNews
Michelle Lees, deputy CEO of Services Australia, told the Royal Commission into the 2019/20 bushfires, that the technology was only used with the full ...
KPMG: Companies must report on climate risk
Food & Drink Business
On 15 January, just as the Australian bushfires were at their height, the World Economic Forum in Davos issued its Global Risk Report 2020, in which ...
As it happened: Australia in recession as GDP drops 0.3 per cent; Victoria records seven new ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
... per cent in the March quarter, a period coinciding with the bushfires and the ... David William John Sparenburg may be the first Australian to die of ...
Fires, floods put insurance at risk
The Australian
According to IAG, the evermore frequent threats of bushfires, cyclones, ... “The bushfire risk is one of the more rapidly changing risks in Australia,” Mr ...
