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Royal commission into national natural disaster arrangements

March 2022

  • The working on the clean up effort in Lismore after the Northern NSW floods caused millions of dollars in damage. NSW, Australia.

    ‘The lessons haven’t been learned’: who should lead Australia’s disaster recovery response?

    Flood-ravaged communities say the burden shouldn’t be placed on them as the case mounts for a well-funded and trained network of first responders

September 2021

  • Greg Mullins in 1979 aged 20 in his NSW Fire Brigades uniform

    ‘The world is burning’: how Australia’s longest-serving fire chief became a climate champion

    Greg Mullins says after the ‘black summer’ bushfires it is time for politicians to act on global heating

November 2020

  • Firefighter conducting back-burning measures

    Coalition intends to honour 'legacy' of bushfires and support royal commission recommendations

  • dark mountains seen with immense clouds and smoke above

    Smoke cloud from Australian summer’s bushfires three-times larger than anything previously recorded

October 2020

  • A firefighter works to extinguish flames after a bushfire burnt through the area in Bredbo, New South Wales, Australia, February 2, 2020.

    In 50 years of firefighting I had never seen fires like I did last summer. Australia must take climate change seriously

    Greg Mullins
  • A fire rages in Bobin, 350km north of Sydney on 9 November 2019

    Morrison government urged to cut emissions to tackle root cause of worsening bushfires

  • Summer bushfires

    Australia must prepare for future shaped by extreme climate, bushfire royal commission report warns

  • Bushfire Cobargo

    Australia's bushfire survivors may feel they can't face the royal commission report – but politicians must

    Kristy McBain

July 2020

  • Firefighters protect a property from bushfires near the town of Bumbalong, south of Canberra, on 1 February 2020

    Bushfire royal commission told coronavirus could stop firefighters helping interstate next fire season

  • Bushfire

    Up to a million Australian homes in bushfire-prone areas have little or no fire protection

June 2020

  • Fiona Kotvojs posters

    Eden-Monaro Liberal candidate says reducing fuel is the only way to manage bushfires

  • A kangaroo escapes a bushfire in Colo Heights, Australia, in November 2019

    'Unprecedented' Australian bushfires directly affected one in eight Indigenous people

  • A pyrocumulonimbus cloud generated by the intense Orroral Valley bushfire south of Canberra, 31 January 2020

    Australia had more supersized bushfires creating their own storms last summer than in previous 30 years

  • The remains of burnt-out businesses in Cobargo, Australia

    Bushfire emergency relief: 'People shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get help'

May 2020

  • Smoke haze from the bushfires over Melbourne in January

    Australia's summer bushfire smoke killed 445 and put thousands in hospital, inquiry hears

  • Buildings destroyed by bushfires in Cobargo, New South Wales, Australia, 12 January 2020

    Bushfire grants not enough and take too long to approve, St Vincent de Paul Society says

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