Yesterday
Celeste Barber raises $25m as stars take lead on bushfire relief
Stars from around the world are showing their heart and pledging alongside the community to raise money for the RFS.
- Fiona Carruthers
Hundreds more homes feared lost on South Coast
The number of missing Victorians fell from seven to four, but one death was confirmed in NSW on Sunday.
- Liz Main
- Opinion
- Bushfires
Better land management is the key to restricting bushfires
What is required is sound practices, informed by local ecology, shaped by history and constrained by current reality.
- Peter Moore
Fires persist, though threats easing
Fires continue in both New South Wales and Victoria on Sunday morning, though the overall fire threat has apparently eased for now.
- Timothy Moore
This Month
Two dead, 21 still missing in Victoria fires
Police now estimate that up to 70 per cent of the 100,000 residents of East Gippsland have fled the bushfires.
- Kaitlyn Offer
Inside the inferno: the men and women who survived Lake Conjola
When fired ripped through a coastal town on New Year's Eve, terrified residents were forced into life-or-death decisions.
- Aaron Patrick
Heat, lightning risk of further Victoria fires
Temperatures are expected to creep higher on Saturday, with parts of Gippsland forecast to hit 40C and areas of the northeast to reach 45C.
Bushfire victims heckle ScoMo in NSW town
'You're an idiot, mate,' one Cobargo local told Prime Minister Scott Morrison as others refused to shake his hand. He soon left.
- Luke Costin
Helicopters and navy poised to rescue Mallacoota residents
Black Hawk helicopters and two naval ships are preparing to rescue those trapped in Mallacoota, Victoria.
- Liz Main, Hannah Wootton and Angela Macdonald-Smith
17 missing in Victoria fire zone; tourists flee NSW south coast
Victoria's premier said 17 people were unaccounted for in the fire-ravaged East Gippsland region, while a "tourist leave zone" has been established in NSW from Batemans Bay to the Victorian border during a lull in dangerous conditions.
- Updated
- Steven Trask
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Business zeros in on climate change
Forcing companies to publish climate change risk scenarios could be a game-changer for investors and regulators.
- Tony Boyd
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Fire crisis needs practical not political response
Politicising the bush fire emergency by linking it to Scott Morrison’s lack of action emissions is not the best way to mitigate climate risk.
- The AFR View
Warning signs turn up the heat for climate change action
The 2010s were a decade of disappointment for climate action. By the final year of the decade, the planet had surpassed its 2010 temperature a record five times.
- Sarah Kaplan
- Opinion
- Bushfires
How to tackle climate change now
The bushfire crisis makes climate action a political imperative. Here are five ways to cut Australia's emissions.
- Craig Emerson
Britain's zero-carbon power outstrips fossil fuels in 2019
Data shows wind, solar, hydro, nuclear and imports produced about 48.5 per cent of Britain's electricity in 2019.
- Susanna Twidale
Three dead in NSW fires, big home losses
The losses included the death of three men - a father and son in Cobargo, west of Bermagui, and another in Yatte Yattah near Conjola Park.
- Updated
- Aaron Bunch
Controversial NYE fireworks light up Sydney
The 12-minute midnight show - criticised by some as a waste of money in light of the unprecedented bushfire crisis - raised almost $1 million for fire victims.
- Luke Costin
December 2019
Thunderstorms could worsen NSW bushfires
Lightning strikes sparked more than a dozen blazes in Victoria's alpine region on Tuesday while thunderstorms have started spot fires in Tasmania.
- Steven Trask
Bushfires need national response: Albanese
Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has called for a national response to the bushfire crisis.
- Michael Doyle
4000 forced into ocean in darkness as fire hits Victorian holiday town
'Everyone is hopefully down on the foreshore in the water,' Don Ashby told the ABC on Tuesday morning as emergency sirens sounded.
- Kaitlyn Offer
