Australian Bushfires
Daily update ⋅ 16 July 2020
Celeste Barber and RFS clash over bill to allow sharing of bushfire donations
The Sydney Morning Herald
The NSW Rural Fire Service has opposed a proposed new law that would allow the wider sharing of more than $51 million in donations raised by ..
Celeste Barber breaks silence on bushfire appeal - The Australian
Celeste Barber breaks silence on $51m bushfire fundraiser to call for NSW law change - ABC News
Bushfires Australia: royal commission told COVID-19 could hamper emergency effort in looming ...
9News
NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Commissioner Rob Rogers today said the nation's capacity to fight intense bushfires in the coming months could be ...
Virus may restrict overseas fire aircraft
Education – Australian Associated Press
The coronavirus pandemic makes it challenging to bring in international firefighting aircraft and crews to help Australia in the coming bushfire season, ...
Barber seeks NSW RFS funding rule change
The West Australian
Comedian Celeste Barber says the millions of dollars she raised for Australian bushfire relief and fire-hit communities should have been funnelled to ...
Insurance too dear for Aussie farmers as climate change drives up premiums
ABC News
Australian farmers are facing increasingly frequent droughts, floods, hailstorms and bushfires, resulting in insurance premiums rising to the point ...
5 learnings Super Retail Group's customer chief is taking from the crisis
CMO
With a fresh leadership team facing the 2019/2020 Australian bushfires then the COVID-19 crisis, McNamara said Super Retail Group's executives did ...
Cocaine and cannabis on the rise but young Aussies shun booze
The Australian Financial Review
Cocaine and cannabis on the rise but young Aussies shun booze ... Australia's use of drugs before the twin calamities of the summer bushfires and ...
Bushfires stretched many states' resources
Busselton Dunsborough Mail
Australia's unprecedented bushfires stretched the resources of the states and territories, senior counsel assisting the commission Dominique Hogan- ...
Aussie businesses devastated by COVID-19 are slashing jobs and transforming to survive
9News
The struggle has protracted for upwards of seven months for some businesses across Australia that were already struggling with bushfires and ...
Cassegrain Wines leading a $2.3 million research project into the management of grapes exposed ...
Port Macquarie News
The winery is one of 29 Australian companies to take on cooperative ... "This has worldwide considerations because Australia has had fires in Victoria, ...
