Tag: Sydney

• Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 07:16 UTC

  Australia to check some 9.000 crew in cruise ships stranded near Sydney

  

  Australian police and military will soon begin flying doctors to several cruise ships stranded near Sydney to assess nearly 9,000 crew for COVID-19, officials said on Thursday.

• 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 - 08:40 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.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 11:03 UTC

  Australia: “catastrophic” conditions in Greater Sydney surrounded by a ring of fire

  

  Firefighters in the Australian state of New South Wales were bracing for “catastrophic” fire conditions on Saturday as temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius and strong winds were set to fuel more than 100 fires burning across the state.

• Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Australia on fire, waiting for heavy rains; Sydney blanketed in smoke and ashes

  

  Thousands of firefighters were fortifying containment lines on Monday as temperatures were forecast to soar, increasing the danger of a fresh wave of bushfires across Australia's east coast. More than 100 fires remain ablaze in the region, and authorities warned conditions would worsen on Tuesday, when temperatures were predicted to top 40 degrees Celsius.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 05:29 UTC

  Hazardous levels of pollution in Sydney as bushfires advance on Australia's largest city

  

  Sydney was shrouded in dangerous haze on Tuesday as smoke from bushfire blazing along Australia's eastern board sent contamination levels soaring in the country's biggest city.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Fires in Australia reach outskirts of Sydney: 50 homes destroyed

  

  A cool change on Wednesday brought relief for firefighters battling massive bushfires in eastern Australia which destroyed 50 homes and saw flames come within meters of homes on the outskirts of Sydney.

• Saturday, May 11th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Princess Cruises announces largest ever Australia, New Zealand 2020/21 season

  

  Princess Cruises has announced its largest Australia and New Zealand cruise season ever offered sailing towards some of the world’s most dramatic destinations during the cruise line’s October 2020 to May 2021 season. New for this season, Regal Princess joins sister ship Majestic Princess in Australia, marking the cruise line’s youngest fleet to sail in this region.

• Friday, February 8th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Fears in Australia that hundreds of thousands of cattle could have died in record floods

  

  Hundreds of thousands of cattle weakened from a severe drought are feared to have died in record-breaking floods in northeastern Australia, authorities said on Friday, as they stepped up efforts to feed surviving livestock.