Black Saturday
How the lessons learnt from Black Saturday are saving lives
Though January’s bushfires scorched nearly as much land as Black Saturday, just one person was killed. Experts and survivors attribute this to several improvements, but warn we must always remain vigilant.
- Angus Delaney
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Big as Black Saturday: Critically endangered species on brink as fires rip through habitats
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 damaged.
- Bianca Hall
- Exclusive
- Bondi shooting
Bushfire inquiry’s top silk says royal commission essential for harmony
“Why this happened and how we prevent it in the future, I think, is of the utmost importance for our nation,” Jack Rush told this masthead.
- Brittany Busch and Nick Newling
- Analysis
- Naked City
The DNA detectives taking on the grim reality of Ukraine’s war
Their code is “everyone has the right to a dignified life, everyone has the right to a dignified death”. And they are using ingenious ways to identify bodies, and bring closure to families.
- John Silvester
- Opinion
- Bushfires
Bracing for a bad bushfire season, this year I’m packing two emergency kits
For some people, mementos may be considered “stuff” – unimportant, unnecessary and replaceable. For others like me, these items are the opposite.
- Shona Hendley
‘We were extremely lucky’: This family narrowly escaped death on Black Saturday, but Kinglake is still home
The Age photographed the Nash family in 2009 after the fire destroyed all of their possessions bar the clothes line and a cubby house. We revisited them as The Age turns 170, and they say they can get through anything.
- Carolyn Webb
- Exclusive
- Climate crisis
Burnout and trauma: huge climate cost on emergency workers revealed
One type of injury suffered by police and firefighters leapt by 50 per cent during the Black Saturday and Black Summer bushfire disasters.
- Bianca Hall
- Exclusive
- Victoria bushfires
Forest fire redundancies ‘risk emergency responses’
Victoria’s Environment Department is looking to make 208 people redundant in its bushfire and forest services group, including 118 in forest fire operations.
- Rachel Eddie
Triumph and tragedy: A front-page view of history
As The Age celebrates 170 years, we look back on some of the most notable major events featuring on our front pages over the decades.
- Hannah Kennelly
- Opinion
- Bushfires
Hazard reduction shouldn’t be hazardous. So why the escaped fire at Oxford Falls?
Have we learnt all the lessons from our 2020 Black Summer disaster? Last weekend’s blaze suggests that we haven’t.
- Ian Brown