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QPWS works year-round to reduce the risk and severity of bushfires on parks and forests through careful planning, implementing and monitoring fire management...

To showcase the recovery progress of the past year we have developed Stories of Recovery.

Jan 8, 2026 - As the fierce heatwave continues across much of southern Australia, hundreds of homes have been evacuated in central Victoria and the state's north-east...

Jan 16, 2026 - The fires that savaged the Victorian towns of Natimuk, Harcourt and Streatham were unlike any the towns had seen before, victims and firefighters said.

After a hellish year, Australia's bushfire comeback is the good-news story we all need right now.

Three people are unaccounted for as bushfires continue to devastate Victoria, Australia, with 30 active blazes and catastrophic fire conditions. Firefighters...

Feb 7, 2017 - Fifty years on, two new names are added to a plaque in southern Tasmania remembering the 64 victims of the state's worst natural disaster.

Dec 8, 2025 - A 59-year-old national parks firefighter has died after he was hit by a tree while fighting a bushfire nort...

Jul 9, 2023 - Landholders in Curraweela whose properties and animals were devastated by a fast-moving bushfire in March attended a workshop last week aimed at supporting...

The hosts have raised over one thousand dollars in donations to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal

Jan 15, 2026 - For decades, authorities have used prescribed burning to reduce bushfire severity. But a rising number of scientists say we can no longer burn our way to...

Dec 2, 2025 - When a blaze threatened his property, Mark Mudie jumped into his front-end loader to try to carve a fire br...

Oct 15, 2025 - Disasters like drought, bushfires and floods are threatening our wildlife. Humane Society International is working to find a solution.

Australian bushfires have destroyed hundreds of homes, resulting in one death amid extreme heatwave conditions.

Relief and recovery support for people and communities affected by the Victorian fires that started on 7 January 2026.

Jan 2, 2026 - One of the fires started just before 5pm at Boya Quarry Reserve launching a massive response from firefighters that saw it contained before it reached homes.

Jan 12, 2026 - One expert said he was not aware of another day in Victoria’s history in which so many different ecosystems – across so much of the state – had been so...

Nov 27, 2025 - Some of the state’s most popular holiday areas are at increased fire risk over coming months.

Dec 11, 2025 - Firefighters remained on the ground in both Kenwick, in the city's east, and in Upper Swan, to keep on top...

Feb 28, 2020 - Australia must learn from the unprecedented bushfires that tore across the country and ensure firefighting agencies are fully staffed...

Jan 1, 2026 - Natural Hazards Research Australia CEO Andrew Gissing shared advice on how Western Australians can prepare their homes as bushfires impact the state. Click...