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• State fire alert

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 146
  DANGEROUS FIRE CONDITIONS ACROSS NSWWidespread total fire bans have been declared across NSW for Tuesday [8 December 2009] with hot, dry and windy conditions forecast. NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the forecast conditions are a concern and has urged people in all parts of the State ...
  6 hours ago

• honey[s], im home...well nearly...

  
  not all those who wander are lost — Authority: 410
  ive been away a while and now have the luxury of blobbing in the Q lounge and catching up on a veritable avalanche of mail the interpixies werent available to play in Mansfield [or Healesville] so i had the luxury of catching up on writing and stitching without the deils tempting me astray i dawdled my way to ...
  11 hours ago

• Thu 17:50 - Marysville - all but destroyed in the Black Saturday bushfires - gets back on its feet ... (audio)

  
  Australian Broadcasting Corp. | abc.net.au — Authority: 812
  Steve Chase talks to Christine Nixon, head of the Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority
  4 days ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  4 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  1 week ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  1 week ago

• National Emergency Alert system from next week

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 139
  The Victorian Premier has announced that the National Emergency Alert system had been tested and will be ready for use next week. Unfortunately there is no emergency information system to back this up with detailed information about the emergency. As a result the National Emergency Alert system is of little value and ...
  1 week ago

• A hugely deserved Walkley for Gary Hughes

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 691
  For me, easily the best moment of The Walkeys last night was when the family of Gary Hughes was presented with a set of Walkley Awards to replace the three that were lost when their home burned in the bushfire.   I was even more delighted when he then won the Gold Walkley. There’ve probably been less than ten ...
  1 week ago

• Code Red Chaos is on the way

  
  Alpine Opinion — Authority: 132
  Some tourism operators in Bright are proposing that we must “send tourists home” on any day that the authorities declare a Code Red “Catastrophic” fire warning this summer. I don’t agree with them. This came out of a meeting held in Bright, which was reported in the Border Mail. The special meeting ...
  1 week ago

• 17:25 - Black Saturday Mayor quits in protest at council decision to lift rates...(audio)

  
  Australian Broadcasting Corp. | abc.net.au — Authority: 812
  Lynn Gunter, the Mayor of Murrindindi Shire Council, which covers the towns of Kinglake and Marysville, tells Ben Mclean she cant agree with a six per cent rate increase.
  1 week ago

• kangaroos can be dangerous to dogs

  
  my dog — Authority: 122
  A man was injured by a kangaroo recently when he tried to stop it drowning his dog . Its sad to read about a clash between the two species that we love. An acquaintance once told me a terrible story about her dog and a kangaroo fighting and falling down the bank into a river - both drowned. Ever since then Ive been ...
  2 weeks ago

• National Australia Day United Prayer on January 26th 2010 in Melbourne

  
  Catch The Fire Ministries — Authority: 469
  Dear friends and family in Christ, On the 26th January 2010 we will once again join hands and hearts with Christian family from all denominations to unite in prayer for our nation this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit. This is possibly the only annual prayer event in Australia where the body of Christ comes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Incident map showing active bushfires in NSW ... (link)

  
  Australian Broadcasting Corp. | abc.net.au — Authority: 812
  Updated map hosted by Rural Fire Service
  2 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Orstrahyun — Authority: 429
  This Is Australia, We Burn ABC News, 5am : Firefighters will be given no reprieve with weather conditions expected to deteriorate today with winds and high temperatures forecast. Overnight 70 fires were burning across the State, mostly in remote and inaccessible terrain in the Blue Mountains the Hawkesbury ...
  2 weeks ago

• State fire bans

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 146
  TOTAL FIRE BANS AS HOT WEATHER CONTINUESTotal Fire Bans have been declared across a large part of NSW, due to continuing hot and dry conditions. NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said Total Fire Bans have been declared in eight Fire Areas across the State, with the Far West and Lower Central ...
  2 weeks ago

• Volunteer to reduce fire hazard near Tanilba Bay

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 146
  CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS HELP REDUCE BUSHFIRE RISK AT TILLIGERRY HABITATAn area of important wildlife habitat is being targeted for practical care by Conservation Volunteers Australia next week. From Monday 23 to Friday 27 November 2009 a team of local and international volunteers will be assisting in manual removal of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia: The Lost Continent?

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 430
  Human Induced Planetary Antiphase SeriesHow Much Longer Could Australians Cope?Australia on catastrophic fires warningFire authorities in South Australia have declared a catastrophic fire danger for two districts,  the Flinders and North-West Pastoral districts.The catastrophic fire warning comes in the wake of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Firefighters’ misguided protest

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 147
  Black Saturday The events of Black Saturday and the loss of life that resulted were a national tragedy. Like every other Australian, I owe an eternal debt of gratitude to the work of our nation’s firefighters, who carry out heroic work on a daily basis. However, it can be rather too easy to look for blame, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Good news & bad news

  
  Alpine Opinion — Authority: 132
  There is good news and bad on the local weather front, as you can clearly see from the above B.O.M. 7-day forecast for Bright. The forecast drop in temperature over the weekend and the possibility of rain is obviously the good news, but the bad news I’m referring to is not so much tomorrow’s forecast [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Orstrahyun — Authority: 429
  "Catastrophic" Fire Conditions Expected In South Australia Today The still-fresh horror of Februarys Victorian bushfire holocaust puts an extremely grim perspective on all such warnings now from the Bureau Of Meteorology : Wednesday, 18 November 2009 is forecast to be very hot and dry for most of South ...
  2 weeks ago

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