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| UpdatedA pilot suffers minor injuries after making an emergency landing 30 metres from a freeway in Melbourne's south-east.
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The car caught fire on Hindmarsh Drive in Canberra's south.
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Topics: rugby-union, air-force, earthquake, disasters-and-accidents, new-caledonia
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A supermoon sightseeing venture backfires for two climbers who had to be rescued after spending the night trapped on Queensland's Glass House Mountains.
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A man is fighting for life after crashing a car into a house and then allegedly using accelerant to start a fire at Ipswich, west of Brisbane.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, crime, ipswich-4305, qld
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| UpdatedA man fights for his life after crashing a car into a house before allegedly using accelerant to set it alight as four people barricaded themselves inside the home at Ipswich, west of Brisbane.
Topics: residential, fires, disasters-and-accidents, crime, ipswich-4305, qld, australia
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New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has surveyed the damage caused by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, as aftershocks kicked up dust from the landslides below.
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A large dust storm has swept through the NT town of Katherine. This video was taken along Casuarina Street in Katherine East on November 14, 2016.
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Wellington resident Zachary Bell films lights in the sky during NZ earthquake.
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As the true extent of a fatal earthquake in New Zealand becomes clear, Christchurch locals all too familiar with quakes are banding together and "taking it in their stride".
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Police guard the scene of a suspicious fire at the Mill Street Tavern in Toowoomba on Queensland's Darling Downs.
Topics: fires, industrial-fires, disasters-and-accidents, toowoomba-4350, qld, australia
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| UpdatedNew Zealand seismologists say the powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck off the south island was less destructive than the smaller magnitude-6.2 Christchurch earthquake in 2011 — but why?
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On the fringe of Australia's 14th-largest regional city, Rockhampton, a tiny community is united after more than a century of frequent natural disasters.
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| UpdatedTwo people have been killed after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck near the city of Christchurch in New Zealand, generating a tsunami and causing widespread damage along the northeast coast of the South Island.
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| UpdatedA powerful earthquake and hundreds of strong aftershocks rock New Zealand, killing at least two people and prompting a tsunami warning that sent thousands fleeing to higher ground.
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| UpdatedThe NSW Rural Fire Service downgrades its emergency warning for a fire burning in the western Sydney suburb of Londonderry to watch and act.
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| UpdatedKey South Australian MPs head to the Riverland to assess the destruction of crops and consider what support can be offered to storm-hit growers.
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SES crews from across Victoria are arriving in Mildura and Merbein to help locals clean up after Friday's mini tornado, described as the worst storm event in the region in decades.
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Low-lying farms and properties north of Adelaide are likely to be protected by new levees in the near future, with authorities now looking at ways to improve the system in the wake of September's costly flooding.
Topics: storm-disaster, disasters-and-accidents, floods, virginia-5120, buckland-park-5120, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA 'mini tornado' and severe thunderstorms sweep through Victoria's far north-west, leaving a trail of destruction and thousands of properties without power.
Topics: storm-disaster, disasters-and-accidents, storm-event, weather, mildura-3500, vic, australia
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A massive fire has broken out at the Wool Shed pub at Docklands, sending thick plumes of smoke across Melbourne's CBD.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, docklands-3008, melbourne-3000
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Have you ever wondered who answers triple-0 calls in an emergency?
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| UpdatedA man in his 30s suffers serious injuries after falling down an embankment near Cape Paton lookout on the Great Ocean Road, along Victoria's south-west coast.
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