Essays & reportage
6 December 2023
Australia’s fatal firestorms have a distinctive and mainly Victorian lineage, but the 2019–20 season was frighteningly new
Books & arts
16 December 2021
An insider’s account of the Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20 exposes the wider failings of the Morrison government
Books & arts
4 October 2021
Do the makers of ABC TV’s Fires have enough critical distance from their subject?
Essays & reportage
25 June 2020
As research on the health impact of the fire season continues, the lessons are becoming clearer
Essays & reportage
17 April 2020
Having yet again rediscovered Aboriginal land management practices, let’s not let the opportunity slip away
Books & arts
17 April 2020
Books | Clear, direct and sometimes cheeky, Fire Country is about more than fire
Books & arts
14 April 2020
Music | What happens when a composer becomes a reporter?
National affairs
20 February 2020
The aftermath of the fires is a perfect opportunity to test the concept of a basic income
Books & arts
5 February 2020
Television | Renewed flagship programs highlight the strengths and weaknesses of ABC current affairs
National affairs
22 January 2020
The NSW environment minister wasn’t speaking only on his own behalf
Essays & reportage
17 January 2020
As successive royal commissions have found, prescribed burning is a tool, not a panacea
National affairs
8 January 2020
Twitter’s roiling, and even the real world is wondering how the prime minister burned through his political capital so quickly
Summer season
8 January 2020
The Australian bushfire has its own fine-grained local languages
Essays & reportage
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
National affairs
3 January 2020
The prime minister’s political authority has fallen away more quickly than anyone could have imagined
National affairs
1 January 2020
Hundreds more deaths will result from the particulates created by Australia’s current crop of bushfires
National affairs
13 November 2019
Diary of a Climate Scientist | Bushfires and climate change are undoubtedly linked, so it’s time to get serious
National affairs
10 December 2018
There’s no doubt that Australia is experiencing a rising number of severe weather events
Books & arts
6 June 2014
Jane Goodall reviews two new documentaries about wildfires
Essays & reportage
22 November 2012
The experts driving Australia’s bushfire policies won’t acknowledge that different forests produce different fires
Books & arts
12 October 2011
Books | Despite the Black Saturday tragedy, attitudes and policies have moved far too slowly
Books & arts
18 May 2009
What role should local museums have in remembering events like the Victorian bushfires, asks Ian McShane
Podcasts
13 March 2009
Understanding the inevitability of devastating fires is essential for local communities and policy makers, historian Tom Griffiths tells Peter Clarke
National affairs
3 March 2009
We need early detection and rapid aggressive response to stop bushfires from raging out of control, argues Viv Waller
Essays & reportage
16 February 2009
Testimony from the 1939 and 2009 fires reveals what we haven’t learnt from history