Rural bushfire survivors forecast an insurance storm for flood regions NSW south coast residents reveal the challenges flood survivors can expect to face – and insurance is a common theme The Guardian - AU · Mar 12, 2022
NSW bushfire Inquiry told of man who died defending his home in Black Summer bushfires The court heard 63-year-old Nambucca Valley man Chris Savva managed to save his house from one of Black Summer's early bushfires before he died trying to drive to safety. ABC News · Mar 10, 2022
Scott Morrison says defence force ‘not available on a moment’s notice’ to respond to disaster – as it happened This blog is now closed The Guardian - AU · Mar 8, 2022
Vital habitat logged after Vic bushfires VicForests harvested forests that were known or likely to contain threatened species or their habitat after the Black Summer bushfires, a court has heard. AAP · Mar 7, 2022
Doctors say climate change is already having devastating effects on our health Jen Spears was pregnant during the Black Summer bushfires and when her baby was born her doctor said she had the "placenta of a heavy smoker". ABC News · Mar 1, 2022
Smoke from Black Summer bushfires depleted ozone layer, study finds More intense bushfires due to climate change will slow recovery of ozone layer, scientist says The Guardian - AU · Feb 28, 2022
Bushfire recovery grant snub for Sarsfield, Wairewa, Ensay refuges at heart of Victoria's Black Summer Among the successful bids for bushfire recovery grants in Gippsland were $7 million for flood levees in Seaspray, untouched by fire. ABC News · Feb 23, 2022
Black Summer victims to get extra $110m The federal government has announced a further $110 million to support communities recovering from the Black Summer bushfires. AAP · Feb 12, 2022
Fire study recruits citizen biologists Scientists have launched a citizen event to help document the recovery of plants and animals in rainforest regions affected by the Black Summer bushfires. AAP · Jan 22, 2022
Upper Murray Black Summer fires featured in bushfire recovery photographic exhibition Harrowing and heartwarming photographs from the 2019-20 Upper Murray Black Summer fires are on display in a bushfire recovery photographic exhibition. ABC News · Jan 19, 2022
Mythologised, memorialised then forgotten: a history of Australia's bushfire reporting Australia’s Black Summer bushfires of 2019 and 2020 wreaked destruction across South-Eastern Australia. Images of flames crowned trees, engulfed fire trucks and people crowded on beaches and packed in boats were broadcast into our homes. The Conversation · Jan 18, 2022