Australian Bushfires
Daily update ⋅ 7 July 2020
Report reveals "peak" losses from "Black Summer" bushfires
Insurance Business Australia
PERILS' report comes six months after the worst Australian bushfire season on record, which impacted the entire continent and resulted in 34 fatalities ...
FIREPROOFING AUSTRALIAN RAINFOREST – NSW conservationists tackling 'highly-flammable ...
Mirage News
“After the fires last November, we're aiming to restore the rainforest for threatened species and most importantly, mitigate future fires,” explained Kelvin ...
Wine producers hit hard as industry records smallest national vintage in more than a decade
ABC News
Dry conditions, bushfires and extreme weather events have left Australia's wine industry ruing its smallest vintage in 13 years, as growers and ...
Book highlights lessons we can learn from past disasters
Illawarra Mercury
Themes include discussion of Indigenous understandings of fire and flood, migrant experiences of bushfire in Australia and the politics of prescribed ...
Greens leader Adam Bandt 'not surprised' by 3 per cent drop in primary vote
The Australian
... and the electorate being ravaged by the Black Summer fires that he said were “coal-fuelled” blazes. Mr Bandt told The Australian on Monday that the ...
Climate change 'a nuclear enemy', royal commission hears
The Australian
Former fire chief Greg Mullins has likened climate change to a nuclear-powered enemy, telling an inquiry into last summer's blazes that Australia is not ...
'Too valuable not to': Cultural burning advocate speaks out
Warwick Daily News
VICTOR Steffensen became the face of Australia's cultural burning movement during last year's deadly bushfires. Now the indigenous fire practitioner ...
SA bushfire review to highlight issues
Yorke Peninsula Country Times
A REVIEW of South Australia's summer bushfires was presented to the state government on Thursday, June 25. Former Australian Federal Police ...
Amid Black Lives Matter protests, these incidents show the reality for Indigenous Australians.
Mamamia
It's been six months since bushfires tore through family farms, communities, and towns, as Australia suffered through the worst bushfire season in our ...
$50000 boost for Adaminaby's Snowy Scheme Museum after bushfires
Mirage News
Snowy Monaro Regional Council has been awarded $50,000 through the Bushfire Community Resilience and Economic Recovery Fund with the grant ...