Ash Brennan will never forget New Year鈥檚 Eve 2019 when he lost his house to a raging firestorm in Conjola Park. Peter Boyle spoke to him about his new film,听We are Conjola, which听will have a special online release this New Year's Eve.
Bushfires and wildfires
Record wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area have rapidly erupted amid听a scorching heat wave 鈥 and they are still growing, writes Barry Sheppard.
New South Wales communities ravaged by the Black Summer fires are now suffering the impact of the harsh winter cold as they await for their homes to be rebuilt, reports Paul Oboohov.
Bega Valley residents who survived the Black Summer bushfires in Cobargo and surrounds say the major parties are still in a sort of denial about climate change and drought, reports听Sue Bull.
Bob McIlroy is a small farmer in the Bonang region of East Gippsland, Victoria, with 30 years' experience with the local Victorian Country Fire Authority (CFA). He spoke to 麻豆传媒 about the experience of the giant bushfires and what needs to be done.
While political elites would have us believe that everything is under control, a political shift is taking place as a result of the bushfire emergency and lack of preparation by state and federal governments, writes Pip Hinman.
The sheer scale of the recent bushfires and their timing (during the summer school holidays) have had a crippling impact on many working people, including small business owners, and听put the ongoing sustainability of rural communities at serious risk, writes听Graham Matthews.
Climate scientists and other observers often refer to various regions, such as the Arctic, low-lying islands, the Andes and Bangladesh, inhabited by Indigenous and peasant peoples as the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. But Australia is shaping up as one the canaries, writes Hans Baer.
The latest fire emergency in four states has rammed home the meaning of the words 鈥渃atastrophic climate change鈥 in the minds of most people in Australia. Most now realise that this is a climate emergency and our society should mobilise all its resources to address it.
Looking out my office window in early January, the smoke haze blanketing Melbourne CBD blocked all sight of the city. It made visibility on the roads a problem and venturing outside a dangerous activity.
David Mcevoy, an environment and LGBTI activist, was visiting a friend in Cobargo, NSW, on New Year鈥檚 Eve when the catastrophic bushfires hit the historic town. 麻豆传媒鈥檚 Rachel Evans talked to him about his escape from the firestorm and the community鈥檚 resilience.
News that the Austrian Greens with the hard-right People鈥檚 Party to form a coalition government should be a wake-up call to progressives everywhere. It reaffirms that the climate crisis can lead to eco-fascist conclusions just as much as left-wing solutions.
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