Financial criminals are exploiting Australia’s worsening climate disasters and extreme weather events,including fires,floods and cyclones.
New world-first guidelines seek to tackle the human cost to first responders and the high rates of PTSD.
A backburn escaped containment lines within hours of ignition during the Black Summer bushfires but the NSW Rural Fire Service never investigated the cause.
Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Darren Klemm said it was a testament to firefighters’ efforts that no lives were lost.
At 77,and with his next book complete,Pascoe says he’s tiring more easily these days. From his property near Mallacoota,he tells of his hope for the future.
Police are treating a bushfire that has destroyed homes south of Perth as suspicious.
An watch and act has now replaced an emergency warning that saw residents evacuate their homes in the suburbs of Bedfordale and Ashendon near Armadale.
The blaze burnt through 690 hectares of bushland this week and came dangerously close to properties in the Perth hills.
Dozens of residents forced to evacuate amid a blaze east of Perth near Gidgegannup have been told they can return home,as a probe into what caused the fire continues.
Residents in Perth’s north-east have been urged to flee as 120 firefighters battle an emergency-level blaze in the City of Swan.
The Minns government wants insurers,banks and superannuation funds to help bankroll projects that reduce flood and bushfire risks faced by NSW residents.