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Wednesday February 13, 2019
Dust shrouds Sydney as air quality readings in NSW reach 'hazardous' levels
14:26 EDT
Air quality levels in NSW's Illawarra and south-west slopes has been rated "hazardous" due to a dust haze, which has also shrouded Sydney.
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'A remarkable end to the fires': Snow falls on parts of Tasmania as fires still smoulder
14:04 EDT
Tasmania has received its first snow of the year, and it's falling on areas that were threatened by fierce bushfires just last week.
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Cases of deadly dirt disease melioidosis will increase as climate changes, expert warns
13:18 EDT
A senior tropical disease researcher is warning that cases of the potentially lethal soil-borne infectious disease melioidosis will increase due to climate change.
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Dust storms traversing eastern Australia
13:06 EDT
A large band of raised dust has travelled across NSW during the last 24 hours, browning skies and reducing air quality.
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Farm Innovation Fund to increase to a billion dollars if incumbent NSW Government returned, LNP pledges
11:54 EDT
The New South Wales Government has vowed to pour another $350 million into its Farm Innovation Fund if the Liberal-National coalition is re-elected at the coming state election.
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Canberra dust storm cuts power to 6,500, shrouds iconic landmarks
07:32 EDT
More than 6,000 Canberrans lost power on Tuesday and a health warning was issued due to strong winds that left the city covered in dust.
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Tuesday February 12, 2019
Townsville flood authorities confirm death from soil bacteria, several others in intensive care
18:28 EDT
A person has died in Townsville after contracting the dangerous soil-borne disease melioidosis amid a spike in cases in the wake of the north Queensland city's flood disaster.
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Doctor plays waiting game with insurance company over Townsville floods
17:19 EDT
It's the follow-on devastation that no small business owner wants to think about — but one Townsville doctor is in limbo, waiting to hear whether his top-level insurance will even cover his practice.
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Dust storm developing in western NSW
14:26 EDT
A dust storm is developing in western NSW this afternoon and some of this airborne dirt may reach coastal areas tonight.
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Clash of seasons brings snow and fire
14:11 EDT
Temperatures are plummeting in southeastern Australia today as a strong cold front brings a wintry mix of weather.
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NSW Rural Fire Service declares statewide total fire ban ahead of hot, windy conditions
13:36 EDT
A total fire ban is in place across New South Wales with 33 bush and grass fires burning across the state, nine currently uncontained.
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Queensland flood video reveals moment police rescue 79yo man trapped in rising waters
12:32 EDT
Dramatic police bodycam vision has captured the moment officers carried a 79-year-old man out of rising floodwaters that swamped his home near Richmond in north-west Queensland.
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Monday February 11, 2019
Townsville flood leaves eight people ill from potentially deadly soil bacteria
21:22 EDT
A potentially deadly disease is infecting vulnerable Townsville residents amid the flood clean-up, health authorities in the north Queensland city are warning.
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Australia's biggest cattle company announces massive cattle losses in Qld floods
18:26 EDT
Australia's largest pastoral company says it has lost thousands of cattle in unprecedented flooding, including almost 30,000 head on one of its Gulf of Carpentaria stations alone.
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Queensland floods from space
17:07 EDT
Queensland's flooding has been captured in spectacular detail by high resolution images taken from space by NASA's Terra satellite.
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Snow, fire, floods and severe storms in one day
16:51 EDT
Australia will live up to its reputation of variable and contrasting weather on Tuesday, with snow, bushfires, flooding, severe thunderstorms, damaging winds and dust storms all possible.
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Norfolk Island's drought proves the big dry extends beyond Australia's mainland
07:59 EDT
It is hard to imagine that a small, subtropical island, surrounded by a vast ocean, could be struggling through drought similar to the one currently being endured on the Australian mainland.
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Malleefowl chick discovery on Eyre Peninsula hailed an 'exciting' find
06:59 EDT
A malleefowl chick has been discovered for the first time in a wildlife refuge on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula.
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Sunday February 10, 2019
North Queensland flood victims need banks and insurers to be 'good corporate citizens', Deputy Premier says
18:57 EDT
Banks and insurers should "lift their socks" and show compassion to north Queenslanders affected by the floods, says Deputy Premier Jackie Trad.
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Teenager Trayeden Fulmer uses social media to round up volunteers as Townsville cleans up
14:17 EDT
Trayeden Fulmer is a typical 15-year-old.
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From Devastating Floods to Blistering Heat
12:38 EDT
Just after the massive flooding around Townsville and Northern Queensland in the past two weeks, a severe heatwave is taking hold this week.
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A 'fake' cool change in Sydney for Saturday
11:42 EDT
Sydney seemed to experience a 'fake' cool change yesterday afternoon as a brief shower dropped temperatures by 3.4 degrees in 10 minutes.
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Man missing after boat crashes in floodwaters in Ayr in north Queensland
09:05 EDT
The search for a man missing in floodwaters in north Queensland after the boat he was on crashed into a jetty on Friday evening has continued.
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Saturday February 9, 2019
Sydney lashed by severe thunderstorms, power outages, flooding
15:33 EDT
Severe thunderstorms brought lightning and heavy rainfall to Sydney last night, causing major damage to buildings and turning roads into rivers.
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A hot Friday night for WA's Central West
14:09 EDT
Many people in the Central West district of WA just tried to sleep through overnight temperatures 8-10 degrees above the norm for February.
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Severe thunderstorms roll over NSW on Friday evening
13:03 EDT
A slow-moving, moisture-laden trough generated many severe thunderstorms across a large swathe of NSW on Friday evening.
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Townsville mosquitoes are massing but no health concern for now, authorities say
09:12 EDT
Residents in flood-ravaged north Queensland are being urged to guard against an influx of mosquitoes brought on by several days of torrential rain, but health experts say a sudden spike in dengue fever and Ross River virus is unlikely.
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Townsville floodwaters are easing but now the mould and mildew are setting in
09:04 EDT
After rain, mould can pop up almost anywhere and it's getting worse by the day in Townsville, preventing the opening of schools in the wake of the flood disaster.
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Friday February 8, 2019
Forrestdale blaze ignites amid sweltering heat and gusty winds, but no fire ban was declared
21:56 EDT
The Forrestdale bushfire in Perth's south this week was sparked on a day when temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius were forecast, along with hot, easterly wind gusts of up to 80 kilometres per hour.
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Living in a dying town: The outback community that refuses to quit
20:17 EDT
Like many outback towns, Ivanhoe, in far-west New South Wales, is on its knees.
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Queensland floods have likely killed hundreds of thousands of cattle, farmers facing 'catastrophic' losses
19:52 EDT
Hundreds of thousands of cattle are likely to have been lost in Queensland's flooding disaster, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says.
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Townsville flood crisis raises fears about economic recovery among business leaders
15:13 EDT
Experts are worried Townsville's long-awaited economic resurgence has been washed out to sea by the city's historic flood disaster.
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Severe storms loom for NSW
11:36 EDT
Severe thunderstorms will occur in parts of NSW today, with damaging winds, heavy rain and large hail all a threat.
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Northern Queensland rain stats update
11:28 EDT
Record-breaking monsoonal rain has caused widespread flooding in northern Queensland during the last fortnight.
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Appendicitis in flood zone prompts novel ride to hospital for young station girl
06:27 EDT
Clare O'Sullivan was at home with parents, her two sisters and her younger brother, enjoying the monsoon rain falling on their drought-stricken cattle property, when she fell unwell.
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Flood impact in north-west Queensland revealed in dramatic time-lapse vision
05:44 EDT
Queensland Rail (QR) has revealed amazing pictures of train tracks engulfed by rising floodwaters at Corella Creek in the state's north-west.
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Rains bring relief to bushfire-weary Tasmanian towns and fire crews
05:40 EDT
Storms across Tasmania have brought some much needed relief to the bushfire crisis that has gripped the state, with people posting joyous messages of thanks for the downpour across social media.
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Thursday February 7, 2019
Townsville flood clean-up to begin in earnest as severe weather eases
21:15 EDT
The true scale of the clean-up across north Queensland is becoming apparent as severe weather conditions ease in flood-ravaged Townsville.
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NASA: Earth's fourth warmest year
16:42 EDT
Last year was our planet's fourth warmest on record, according to data published by NASA this week.
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Black Saturday weather nearly a 'perfect storm'
14:26 EDT
The Black Saturday bushfires claimed 173 lives and destroyed thousands of homes in Victoria on February 7th, 2009.
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Wild weather lashes Victoria, bringing hail, damaging winds and heavy rainfall
09:07 EDT
Wild weather has lashed parts of Victoria, with a line of thunderstorms bringing large hailstones, damaging winds and, in some places, a month's worth of rain in one day.
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Townsville residents angry at being locked out of their storage sheds before flood peak
08:56 EDT
A Townsville resident says she is furious at being locked out of a storage facility last week, saying she could have retrieved photos of her dead son, but instead lost almost everything to the flood.
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Townsville residents return home to mud and mess in wake of flood disaster
01:17 EDT
Hundreds of Townsville residents are starting to return to their flood-ravaged homes to find a big clean-up ahead as muddy tiles, soggy skirting boards and damp furniture bathe in the humid stale air in the north Queensland city.
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Wednesday February 6, 2019
Drought-hardened graziers heartbroken as cattle die in floods
17:09 EDT
Hundreds of cattle are believed to be dead or stranded in north-west Queensland as heartbroken graziers go from a drought .
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Rain, storms and cooler weather heading for Tasmania
15:30 EDT
Rain, thunderstorms and snow could all affect fire-ravaged Tasmania during the next week.
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In pictures: How Townsville's one-in-100 year flood crisis unfolded
15:08 EDT
The North Queensland flood disaster has officially been declared a catastrophe after a slow moving monsoon dumped record-breaking rain over the Townsville region for days.
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Could climate change make it harder to get insurance in Australia?
13:44 EDT
At the moment, and .
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Possible rain relief for flood-weary northern Queensland
12:01 EDT
An end to northern Queensland's record-breaking rainfall could be in sight.
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Queensland flooding takes a toll on many as rain brings mixed reactions from farmers
11:07 EDT
A year's worth of rainfall along the north Queensland coast has eased, leaving farmers and graziers to comprehend the aftermath as the clean-up begins in many districts.
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Townsville flood crisis brings neighbours together as family takes in 60 stranded people
08:30 EDT
A family hailed as "true heroes" has taken more than 60 flood-stricken people and their pets into their two-storey home as they waited to be rescued from rising floodwaters in Townsville in north Queensland.
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Weather News
Dust shrouds Sydney as air quality readings in NSW reach 'hazardous' levels
14:26 EDT
Air quality levels in NSW's Illawarra and south-west slopes has been rated "hazardous" due to a dust haze, which has also shrouded Sydney.
'A remarkable end to the fires': Snow falls on parts of Tasmania as fires still smoulder
14:04 EDT
Tasmania has received its first snow of the year, and it's falling on areas that were threatened by fierce bushfires just last week.
Cases of deadly dirt disease melioidosis will increase as climate changes, expert warns
13:18 EDT
A senior tropical disease researcher is warning that cases of the potentially lethal soil-borne infectious disease melioidosis will increase due to climate change.
