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Home / Posts Tagged: "bushfires"
    • Human Interest

    How to help people dealing with traumatic events

    Meaghan O'Donnell     |      January 10, 2020

    Thousands of people are processing the emotional impact of being caught up in the Australian bushfires. Here are some tips on how you can support a friend or family member who may be struggling.

    • Environment

    When our love of place gets swallowed by bushfires

    Dimity Williams     |      January 9, 2020

    All of us have our ‘happy place’ where we have developed our ‘topophilia’ or love of place. So, when these places are damaged or destroyed by bushfire, the loss felt is profound.

    • Society

    Responsibility shared?

    Warren Brown     |      January 8, 2020

    The recent bushfires have wreaked financial as well as environmental devastation and must be addressed with a firm strategy.  The government should dictate the terms here, not the banks and vested interests.

    • Defence and Security

    Soldiers shouldn’t fight fires

    Marcus Hellyer     |      December 21, 2019

    As bushfires become the norm, rather than the exception, new strategies must be found to fight them, but using soldiers to augment volunteers is not a tenable way forward.

    • Environment

    Better building planning can help combat bushfires

    Open Forum     |      December 15, 2019

    As fires ravage the east coast of Australia, a QUT expert has called for an urgent review of planning regulations which make the situation worse.

    • Environment

    The burning season

    Open Forum     |      November 12, 2019

    The early-season bushfires in Queensland and NSW and ‘catastrophic’ conditions around Sydney are a worrying sign of more to come over the summer.

    • Environment

    Urban sprawl and climate change are increasing fire dangers

    Janet Stanley     |      February 10, 2019

    Action has been taken to improve people’s safety in the event of bushfires, but two key risk factors – urban sprawl and climate change – aren’t being addressed.

    • Environment

    Learning the lessons from bushfires – again and again and again

    Kevin Tolhurst     |      February 6, 2019

    There have been more than 50 formal inquiries into bushfire management in south-eastern Australia since 1939, but what lessons have we learned?

    • Environment

    Victoria’s wet spring won’t damp down summer bushfires

    Catriona May     |      December 4, 2018

    While spells of wet weather make a small impact on the risk of bushfires in the summer, long-term climate trends are much more important in shaping the extent of the threat.

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