With the disastrous effects of climate change already upon us, past events may have lessons for the future.
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Articles on Black Saturday bushfires
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The new ABC drama Fires is a six-part series of interlinked stories inspired by the 2019-2020 Black Summer fire season.
Our report draws on data from more than 1,000 participants who told us of their experiences through community meetings, repeated surveys years after the fires or in-depth interviews.
Low-income earners, small-business owners and part-time workers are most likely to lose income following a disaster.
Estimates of the cost of Victoria’s 2009 Black Saturday fires provide a staring point for calculating the much bigger cost of these ones.
Artists and entertainers have raised millions of dollars for the current bushfire crisis – so why are they still at the receiving end of so much criticism and so little funding and support?
The latest bushfires cannot be compared to Ash Wednesday or Black Saturday. Our nation’s fire history is being rewritten.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
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Academic, Population Health, The University of Melbourne
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Climate Criminologist & Senior Instructor/Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University
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Professor, Bushfire Science, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor (adjunct) in Creative Writing, Flinders University
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Professor of Economics, Head of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Centre for Disaster Resilience and Recovery, Deakin University
