Tag: bushfires

As bushfire season approaches, a Queensland survey reveals almost three-quarters of people living near bushland have no plan.

Disaster assistance for coastal shires hit by flooding. Resources sector contributes funds for people who lost homes in bushfires.

Payments to help victims of fires in Perth Hills, as more than 80 homes destroyed and fires continue to burn.

Grants are intended to support the next steps in the region’s long-term economic recovery after last season’s bushfires.

It’s normal for emotions to resurface at times like this, as effects can be felt for years. Communities should support each other, say experts.

As the summer bushfire season looms, Tasmania has more than doubled its fleet of pre-positioned firefighting aircraft.

This round of project funding will benefit over 75 priority plant species and almost 100 priority invertebrate species identified as urgent.

The SA state government acts on the independent review findings by former Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Mick Keelty.

Fire outlook for September-November 2020 is far better than at this time last year, says report. But there are risks later in the season.

State’s governor has put out a call for help from Australia and Canada. But the coronavirus will complicate matters.

High winds, high temperatures and exceptionally dry air are ramping up the potential for significant fire outbreaks around the Top End.

Experts say our fire season is up to four months longer in many regions.

Celeste Barber's bushfire money raising efforts have wound up in court after a legal hitch means the funds can not be shared to other states.

WATCH: The Rural Fire Service thanks the world for all its support over the bushfire crisis in the biggest way possible.

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew is stepping up efforts to store precious Australian seeds to safeguard flora from future catastrophes.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The real reason Scott Morrison cancelled his Hawaii trip was to postpone a secret tryst with a controversial Indian mogul, writes TESS LAWRENCE.

The bushfires have shown nature at its cruelest but there is hope we can save our beloved wildlife, as these clips show.

Australians' love for their harsh land has been pushed to breaking point as flood, hail and dust follow the fires.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: The prime minister's Monday salvo against the NSW environment minister over the response to the bushfire disaster was gratuitous and inept.

SPECIAL FEATURE: The ecological costs of huge, repetitive, high-severity fires on ecosystems could be colossal.

The bushfire crisis almost certainly explains the crash in Morrison’s ratings, with opposition leader Albanese now the preferred prime minister, according to poll.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Climate change is making extreme events even more severe, resulting in unprecedented conditions that are rewriting our nation’s history.

SPECIAL FEATURE: One thing to be mindful of during times like these, is that unfortunately some people may seek to prey on the generosity of others.

'This crisis has been unfolding for years'. NASA images reveal a ravaged continent.

SPECIAL FEATURE: I should have twigged straight away. At 8am the sky was a gruesome orange-black, the surrounding bush freakishly quiet. Our mobile phones had no signal. Outside, my car was coated in soot.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison met with angry locals of bushfire ravaged Cobargo, and it didn't go well.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Scott Morrison has refused to meet calls for a national summit or a COAG meeting on the fire effort, but he is no longer able to gloss over the climate debate.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Fire officials warn that this week's catastrophic fire conditions are "where people die". Climate change has arrived, and politicians should drop the meaningless rhetoric.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: These unprecedented fires are an indication that a much-feared future under climate change may have arrived earlier than predicted. The week ahead will present high-stakes new challenges.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: While fire is a normal part of Australia’s yearly cycle and no two years are alike, what we are seeing now is absolutely not business as usual.

OPINION & ANALYSIS: Enough. Most Australian voters surely care less about who is running the country than they do about making sure our country is still a habitable place to live in the future.

Australia has a reputation for life-taking storms and killer animals (insert drop-bear info, here). And quite frankly, we love it! Here's 10 reasons to be afraid, very afraid, Down Under.

“I feel absolutely gutted, you know. I love this region. I just don’t know where to start, what to do first,” says mayor.

Residents told to flee deadly bushfires raging in Western Australia that have already claimed four lives.

Australian Red Cross working with bushfire affected communities to help people keep in touch with family and friends.

Christine Milne says bushfires expose Federal Government's nonsense and inaction on climate change.

Dozens of homes lost in South Australia’s worst bushfires in 32 years.

A large, fast-moving grassfire burning on Melbourne's northern fringe still poses a threat to homes in new suburbs and regional towns.

Fire-starters should be classed as "urban terrorists", according to WA's emergency services minister

A triumphant Fire Commissioner has said strategic planning and aggressive back burning has paid off, and the major fire threat authorities had anticipated in the Blue Mountains has been averted.

Three top-level emergency warnings have been declared in NSW affecting residents in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands.

One man has died and hundreds of homes have been feared lost as firefighters labour to control some of the worst blazes NSW has ever seen.

Hundreds of properties are feared lost in bushfires around NSW, and it will be a miracle if no lives are lost says Premier.