Tag: Australia

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Bushfires in Australia threaten the dairy industry; “thousands of cattle have been lost”

  

  Bushfires across Australia's east coast are set to pile on more pain for the country's dairy industry, already hurt by a prolonged drought, as processors in one of the world's largest exporters face tightening milk supplies.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Australian troops deployed to help in three states; bushfires destroyed an area the size of Ireland

  

  Reserve troops were deployed to fire-ravaged regions across three Australian states on Monday after a torrid weekend that turned swathes of land into smoldering, blackened hellscapes.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Australian navy in emergency evacuation operations; PM Morrison jeered by bushfire victims

  

  The Australian navy on Friday began evacuating around 1,000 people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Australia on fire: thousands evacuate coastal communities; political storm brewing

  

  Thousands of tourists have been given less than 48 hours to evacuate fire-ravaged coastal communities as Australia braces for a heatwave on Saturday expected to fan deadly bushfires.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 11:48 UTC

  Thousands of Australian holidaymakers trapped on a beach close to fire ravaged Sydney

  

  Thousands of holidaymakers and locals were trapped on a beach in fire-ravaged southeast Australia on Tuesday, as blazes ringed a popular tourist area leaving no escape by land. As many as four thousand people are trapped on the foreshore of the encircled seaside town of Mallacoota, as smoke turned day to night and the authorities said nearby fires were causing extreme thunderstorms and “ember attacks”.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Australia orders the evacuation of 30.000 tourists as temperature rises to 40 Celsius

  

  Thousands of residents and holiday makers have been told to evacuate a swathe of Victoria as soaring temperatures and strong winds fan massive bushfires in the Australian state.

• Monday, December 30th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks display is on announce city officials

  

  A petition to cancel Sydney's famous New Year's Eve fireworks and use the money to fight bush fires ringing the city has topped 260,000 signatures, but officials say the show will go on.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Fires in Australia threaten the water infrastructure that supplies Sydney

  

  Australian authorities said on Friday that they are focused on protecting water plants, pumping stations, pipes and other infrastructure from intense bushfires surrounding Sydney, the country's largest city. Firefighters battling the blazes for weeks received a reprieve of slightly cooler, damper conditions over Christmas, but the respite is not expected to last long.

• Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Kylie Minogue invites Brits “to turn off the news and kick off your shoes” and come to Australia

  

  Australian popstar Kylie Minogue has invited weary Britons to forget politics and “call on your friends in Australia” in a tourism campaign launched in Britain on Christmas Day.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Only in bush fire ravaged Australia, a kangaroo spotted cooling off in a pool

  

  A kangaroo has been spotted cooling off in a backyard pool in a bush fire-ravaged region of Australia while elsewhere firefighters have been rescuing koalas from trees threatened by flames.