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The devastating toll of Australia’s bushfires revealed

A new report has highlighted the devastating impacts of Australia’s horror bushfire season, including a huge spike in...

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11th March 2020 10:03 AM

Areas burned in the Blue Mountains and Gondwana heritage areas. Yellow shows the world heritage areas that were burnt, green shows areas unburned and grey shows burned areas that were not world heritage. Picture: Climate Council’s report Summer of Crisis

‘Trainwreck’: Crowd’s furious jeers at MP

New Q&A host Hamish Macdonald was forced to intervene and ask the crowd to be quiet after a politician’s comment was...

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04th Feb. 2020 5:02 AM

Hamish Macdonald was forced to tell the crowd to calm down tonight. Picture: Q&A/ABC

Parliament to resume as bushfires rage on

Federal parliament will resume for the first sitting fortnight of the year with Australia's bushfire crisis at the...

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31st Jan. 2020 1:01 PM

Parliament is persisting to open while bushfires rage around it.

Pub raises vital funds for hero rural firefighters

A Sunshine Coast pub has raised $10,000 for Slocal rural firefighters through sales and customers’ donations.

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30th Jan. 2020 12:01 PM

A rural firefighter watches on as as a bushfire burns east of the David Low Way at at Peregian Beach. The Currimundi Hotel has raised $10,000 for the Caloundra Rural fire Service brigade. Photo Lachie Millard

International soccer legends headline bushfire charity match

International legends Didier Drogba, David Trezeguet and Dwight Yorke headline the stars signed to play in a bushfire...

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28th Jan. 2020 12:01 PM

Didier Drogba, Dwight Yorke and David Trezeguet will play in the bushfire match.

Designer clothes donated to homeless bushfire victims

Residents of the bushfire-affected south coast region of Australia are about to receive truck loads of brand new, high-end...

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28th Jan. 2020 11:01 AM

SUNDAY TELE JOB - PE Nation donates clothes to bushfire affected families.

Family of RFS volunteers loses three homes in bushfires

When Ashley and Bridget Buchanan fled a wall of flames threatening their home, they did not realise their son’s and...

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28th Jan. 2020 11:01 AM

Buchanan Family Homes wiped out in New South Wales South Coast Bushfires

Loving dad died trying to save heirloom

“I later dreamt he told me ‘I’m so very sorry Josie’. The decision to stay behind cost him his life.

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28th Jan. 2020 10:01 AM

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – January 23: Josie Smith with daughter Emerald Smith at their home in Catalina, lost their beloved husband and father, John Smith in the New South Wales south coast Bush fires, January 23, 2020. Daily Telegraph/ Gaye Gerard

RFS delays in paying bills hurting rural communities

Business owners who helped the NSW Rural Fire Service respond to blazes are begging the agency to pay their bills, with...

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28th Jan. 2020 10:01 AM

Daily Telegraph. Kath Knaggs is the owner of the Apsley Arms Hotel in Walcha and is still waiting to be paid about $1400 from the RFS after she provided accommodation and meals for firefighters in November.

Bushfires: The brave men and women who defended Stanthorpe

It was the megafire that threatened to consume an entire Queensland town, and these are the men and women who held the...

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26th Jan. 2020 10:01 AM

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