Bushfire

Hard-hit tourism and hospitality hubs Byron Bay and Cairns are among important regional centres likely to emerge slowest from the economic rubble of the coronavirus crisis, says an international team of researchers. Key points:Six Queensland communities are 'vulnerable' to lasting coronavirus economic disruptionCentres with economies diversified across mining and agriculture…

Updated April 14, 2020 06:43:24 Max Gordon-Hall lost his three-bedroom home in Batlow, NSW, when fire swept through the town in early January. Key points:Coronavirus has slowed down the bushfire clean-upPeople affected by the bushfires worry coronavirus means they will be forgottenAuthorities promise no-one will be left behind and money…

Updated April 13, 2020 21:28:13 Passed on through the generations, could Indigenous cultural burning save Australia's landscape from another catastrophic bushfire season?He's a keeper of memories. Custodian of a knowledge that has been handed down for thousands of years: the ability to see when the land is sick and know…

Austra­lian said he would person­ally drop food on doorst­eps after COVID-19 restri­ctions closed down entire indust­ries Australian said he would personally drop food on doorsteps after COVID-19 restrictions closed down entire industries. PHOTO: AFP SYDNEY: Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has apparently followed through on a promise to help people going…

BRISBANE - As Australia’s live music sector faces a cold, harsh winter, the national government casts out a lifeline. On Thursday (April 9), Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP pledged A$27 million in emergency funding for the arts, with the money targeting three…

mage: David Mariuz/AAP The world faces profound disruption. For Australians who lived through the most horrific fire season on record, there has been no time to recover. The next crisis is now upon us in the form of COVID-19. As we grapple with uncertainty and upheaval, it’s clear that our…

Sikh volunteers and others in the community are continuing their tireless work to feed the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic.Kindhearted community members have been sourcing eggs and bread for residents struggling to put food on the table during the four-week lockdown in New Zealand.The country is about halfway through a…

It wasn't that long ago that Australia was mired in what many assumed would be the country's worst crisis of 2020. Lightning strikes ignited fires that swept across southeastern Australia, burning at least seven million hectares of land dried by years of dr… Read More

Bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef outside Cairns Australia during a mass bleaching event, ... thought to have been caused by heat stress due to warmer water temperatures as a result of global climate change. Getty Australia’s Great Barrier Reef just experienced its third mass bleaching event in the…

As he went to bed on 30 December 2019, Jack Egan checked the Fires Near Me app to see the progress of a bushfire bearing down on his home on Australia’s east coast. Almost 30kms away, he expected the blaze would die down overnight. But at 6am the alerts and…