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Australia PM says he shouldn't have gone to Hawaii amid bushfires
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has addressed Australia's ongoing bushfire crisis and the government's response in an extended sit-down interview with ABC Insiders host David Speers.
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Victorian firefighter dies near Omeo as Australia's fires crisis continues
12 Jan 2020An Australian firefighter has died while working on a blaze near Omeo in Victoria's east.
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Australian bushfires ease, promise reprieve to build defences
11 Jan 2020Bushfire conditions eased in Australia on Saturday after a gruelling night for firefighters, with authorities expecting at least a week of milder weather in which to step up defences
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Crews frantically backburn as mega-blaze forms at NSW-Victoria border
11 Jan 2020Firefighters in Victoria and New South Wales are battling to contain huge blazes burning across Australia's south-east.
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'Pathetic': Blaze-hit island's mayor hits out at Obama's climate tweet
11 Jan 2020As almost half of Australia's third largest island burned, its mayor criticises the former US president for connecting climate change with Australia's bushfires.
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NSW fire threat to worsen as hot temperatures, erratic winds bear down
10 Jan 2020Firefighters are bracing for a difficult night ahead with blazes in New South Wales' south set to join into a 'mega-fire' that has razed over half a million hectares of land.
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Australian insurer claims hit hundreds of millions as bushfires rage on
Australian insurer Suncorp Group says since September it has received 2600 bushfire-related claims worth up to $AU345 million.
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Australia fires: Huge area of Perth on alert as winds fan bushfire
10 Jan 2020Around 200 firefighters were set to work through the night on a fast-moving bushfire that has triggered an emergency warning across Perth's south-eastern suburbs.
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'This is not the year': Canberra cancels fireworks
10 Jan 2020Authorities in Canberra say fireworks will not be part of Australia Day celebrations when they are held in two weeks.
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Animals' tricks to survive bushfire
9 Jan 2020Have you wondered how Australian wildlife stays alive during bushfires and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide? The answer is adaptation and old-fashioned ingenuity. Video
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Australia fires: 'It makes these horrific freight train kind of noises'
9 Jan 2020A Christchurch student was meant to spend the summer on a forestry internship in Australia. Instead, he ended up fighting fires that he says makes flames that shoot to the top of 30m-tall trees.
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Australia bushfires: Victoria extends state of disaster as danger rises
9 Jan 2020Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews has extended the Australian state's first-ever state of disaster ahead of "significant fire activity" forecast for the next two days.
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'NZ needs to look closely at what's happening in Australia'
8 Jan 2020As firefighters and defence force personnel head over the ditch, the defence minister has requested a national fire risk assessment to prevent a disaster like the bushfires tearing through Australia.
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Elton John closes Sydney show with $1m donation to fire relief
8 Jan 2020Sir Elton John has received a standing ovation at a concert in Sydney after pledging $1 million for Australia's bushfire relief efforts.
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'Heck of a lot of risk' - NZ firefighters face Aussie blazes
8 Jan 2020New Zealand fire crews being deployed today will face unprecedented and unpredictable conditions in Australia, says a firefighter who has returned, saying it was like nothing he has ever seen. Audio
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Former Dunedin woman warns of ‘mega fire’
8 Jan 2020A former Dunedin woman now leading Victoria's bushfire response says the deadly blaze is poised to become ''one large megafire''.
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Australia fires: Pacific leaders reach out with offers of support
7 Jan 2020Pacific leaders have extended offers of support to Australia as devastating bushfires continue to ravage parts of the country.
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Crisis of underinsurance threatens to scar rural Australia permanently
7 Jan 2020Australia is in the midst of a bushfire crisis that will affect local communities for years, if not permanently, due to a national crisis of underinsurance.
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Australia fires: Pacific leaders reach out with offers of support
7 Jan 2020Pacific leaders have extended offers of support to Australia, as devastating bushfires continue to ravage parts of the country.
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Australia bushfires: Another death confirmed in NSW
7 Jan 2020The fires in Australia have killed another person in New South Wales, state police have confirmed.
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Australia bushfires: Morrison pledges $2b to recovery fund
6 Jan 2020Australian officials are using a respite today from fierce wildfires to race to reopen blocked roads and evacuate people who have been trapped for days.
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Tangerine skies? The science behind the smoke haze
6 Jan 2020New Zealand is unlikely to be much affected by ash from Australia's bushfires but vulnerable people should be sensible, and care should be taken around untreated drinking water, a physicist says.
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Australian bushfires: Carcasses need to be buried to avoid biosecurity emergency
Australia's Defence Force will dig mass graves for the country's burned livestock in a bid to fight off a biosecurity emergency, as the bushfires crisis continues to grip the country.
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Australia fires: Authorities warn of mega-fire forming
6 Jan 2020Countless stories of devastation are emerging from Victoria's east and north-east, where four people remain missing as authorities brace for more bushfire emergencies from Thursday.
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