Several Gippsland towns are on flood alert as heavy rainfall in Victoria’s east causes waterways to rise amid landslides.
South Gippsland Shire plans to stop expansion at Sandy Point,Waratah Bay and Venus Bay to reduce exposure to climate-change related disasters.
YouTube star Beau Miles picks up the cans and bottles that drivers chuck out of cars.
The arrival of an El Nino weather pattern and a hot,dry summer could see water storages drop quickly.
Australia’s landscape was sculpted by the knowing use of fire over tens of thousands of years. But much has changed,including,most ominously,the climate.
Parts of Bairnsdale,Wangaratta and Sale are facing flooding as record-breaking rainfall moves down swollen waterways in the state’s east,just days after bushfires hit Gippsland.
The Country Fire Authority is confident fires in East Gippsland will be contained in coming days,but rainfall of up to 100 millimetres could cause flash floods.
Four emergency evacuation alerts were active at one point on Sunday afternoon for fires near towns in the state’s east.
Ian Wilkinson,who was one of four elderly people hospitalised after attending a lunch in Victoria’s south-east in July,left the Austin Hospital on Friday.
He has been rejected from about 50 rental properties and is considering a desperate tactic to boost his chances.
Simon Patterson has paid tribute to his parents at a memorial service in the Gippsland town of Korumburra.