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| UpdatedCooler weather allows New South Wales firefighters battling blazes near Kempsey and in the Hunter Valley and Port Stephens region to get containment lines set, ahead of soaring temperatures forecast today.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, fires, kundabung-2441, nsw, kitchener-2325, cessnock-2325, kearsley-2325, karuah-2324, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedResearchers say 'unrealistic optimism' keeps us from getting a cyclone kit together, and there are cultural characteristics at play as well.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, storm-disaster, psychology, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedFiji's Attorney-General and Economy Minister has revealed that the most of the funds in the Prime Minister's Disaster and Rehabilitation Fund setup in the aftermath of Cyclone Winston have already been used.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-planning, relief-and-aid-organisations, pacific, fiji
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| UpdatedFires continue to burn in New South Wales near Kempsey and in the Hunter Valley and Port Stephens regions, with crews battling changing conditions through Monday.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, fires, emergency-planning, kundabung-2441, kitchener-2325, cessnock-2325, nsw, sydney-2000, karuah-2324, kearsley-2325
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| UpdatedFire crews battle a bushfire near Dundathu near Maryborough in southern Queensland, with aerial support called in to help contain the blaze.
Topics: fires, bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, dundathu-4650, maryborough-4650, qld, australia
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| UpdatedWith northern Australia now officially in the midst of cyclone season, the State Emergency Service wants you to be prepared.
Topics: emergency-planning, cyclones, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedThe local response immediately after Cyclone Winston struck earlier this year saved lives and supported communities, at a time when Fiji faced its greatest challenge ever.
Topics: emergency-planning, relief-and-aid-organisations, pacific, fiji
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Twenty new Australians are recruited to help migrant communities understand the dangers of a hot summer Down Under.
Topics: emergency-planning, bushfire, floods, immigration, human-interest, adelaide-5000
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Tim Bowden, Steve Rush and Ben Maynard at the Tasmanian Minerals Emergency Response Committee 2016 emergency response competition.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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Competition adjudicator Rex Johnson had teams work with ropes and first aid equipment to lower a casualty safely to the ground from a 15 metre platform.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, bell-bay-7253
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| UpdatedMiners test their skills in simulated emergency situations at Bell Bay Aluminium's old alumina kiln.
Topics: agribusiness, mining-rural, mining-industry, occupational-health-and-safety, emergency-planning, workplace, launceston-7250, bell-bay-7253
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Despite the official bushfire season in the ACT being delayed by a month due to consistent wet weather, fire fighters are warning Canberra can still expect a dangerous summer.
Topics: emergency-planning, fires, bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, canberra-2600, act, australia
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After Scaddan Primary School emerged unscathed from fires that nearly destroyed the town, its Principal says students and teachers are well prepared for this bushfire season.
Topics: bushfire, emergency-planning, primary-schools, scaddan-6447, esperance-6450
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Topics: education, bushfire, emergency-planning, scaddan-6447
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In 2007 Steve Angel's home was destroyed by a bushfire. He rebuilt and is determined that he and his family will never be burnt out again.
Topics: bushfire, fires, emergency-planning, human-interest, perth-6000, dwellingup-6213
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| UpdatedA new website to provides a live feed of bushfire information to West Australians has been launched to give more accurate public safety warnings.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, perth-6000, wa
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A privately funded review into last year's devastating Esperance bushfires is completed, with the proponents hoping to publicly release the document next week.
Topics: bushfire, local-government, regional, regional-development, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, climate-change, esperance-6450
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A communications crash that affected hospital, emergency services and road traffic management systems exposed backup problems, a union says.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, information-and-communication, tas
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| UpdatedThe United Nations Development Programme is partnering with the Russian Federation to launch a disaster resilience project.
Topics: emergency-planning, relief-and-aid-organisations, weather, community-and-society, pacific, fiji