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The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

Scott Morrison says defence force ‘not available on a moment’s notice’ to respond to disaster – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Vital habitat logged after Vic bushfires

VicForests harvested forests that were known or likely to contain threatened species or their habitat after the Black Summer bushfires, a court has heard.

AAP

Doctors say climate change is already having devastating effects on our health

Jen Spears was pregnant during the Black Summer bushfires and when her baby was born her doctor said she had the "placenta of a heavy smoker".

ABC News

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Smoke from Black Summer bushfires depleted ozone layer, study finds

More intense bushfires due to climate change will slow recovery of ozone layer, scientist says

The Guardian - AU

Volunteer firefighters issued respiratory masks following Black Summer review

The rollout follows a review into the ACT emergency services response to the 2019-20 bushfires.

The Canberra Times

Bushfire recovery grant snub for Sarsfield, Wairewa, Ensay refuges at heart of Victoria's Black Summer

Among the successful bids for bushfire recovery grants in Gippsland were $7 million for flood levees in Seaspray, untouched by fire.

ABC News

Volunteers join fight to save Namadgi's burnt bogs

Experts say the extent of the Black Summer damage was "really, really, really heartbreaking".

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Black Summer victims to get extra $110m

The federal government has announced a further $110 million to support communities recovering from the Black Summer bushfires.

AAP

No longer 'armchair activists': Black Summer bushfire trauma drives protesters

The pair received criminal convictions on Tuesday after a magistrate rejected claims there were extenuating circumstances to justify their charges being dismissed.

The Canberra Times

Fire study recruits citizen biologists

Scientists have launched a citizen event to help document the recovery of plants and animals in rainforest regions affected by the Black Summer bushfires.

AAP

Upper Murray Black Summer fires featured in bushfire recovery photographic exhibition

Harrowing and heartwarming photographs from the 2019-20 Upper Murray Black Summer fires are on display in a bushfire recovery photographic exhibition.

ABC News

Mythologised, memorialised then forgotten: a history of Australia's bushfire reporting

Australia’s Black Summer bushfires of 2019 and 2020 wreaked destruction across South-Eastern Australia. Images of flames crowned trees, engulfed fire trucks and people crowded on beaches and packed in boats were broadcast into our homes.

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