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Natural disasters in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalAustralia experiences a range of 'natural disasters' including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Fire can often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of ra...
Even though the four 'official' calendar seasons have the same names as the northern hemisphere seasons, the weather during these seasons is very different to northern hemisphere weather patterns. Indigenous Australians have long had their own seasonal c...
Australian novels are an impressive collection of written works, and represent a dynamic body of excellent writers, some with significant international awards to their credit. The Australian poet Alec Hope said that, 'The Bunyip of Australian literature ...
The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...
Protestant and Roman Catholic churches hold Christmas Day services on 25 December. The Eastern churches - the Ethiopian Orthodox church, Russian Orthodox church and the Armenian church - celebrate Christmas on 6 or 7 January. Christmas is the celebratio...
Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...
Australian language, letters and literature in Australia has been influenced by Aboriginal storytelling, convict tales and the desire by colonists to relate their experiences in a new country. Similarly, the bush ballads of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo...
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Related site: Managing fires in forested landscapes in south Western Australia Provides information on research in fire management in south Western Australia. Fire management research publications Supplies a list of research reports related to fire manage...
Houses do not explode as the bushfire front passes - it takes time for the structure of a house to be affected by the bushfire. Every bushfire involving significant house loss, from the Ash Wednesday fires in South Australia in 1983 to the present, has be...
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Fire management research publications Supplies a list of research reports related to fire management. Fire in Australia's tropical savannas Provides background information on bushfires occurring in northern Australia. Bush fire risk management planning Pr...
Published jointly by the Biodiversity Unit, Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories and the North Australia Research Unit, The Australian National University. The Bushfires Council (BFC) as a land management agency has the responsibility to a...
Summary of major Bush Fires Since 1926. 1st of September 1994 East Coast, Bushfires Bushfires affected coastal Queensland from September to November. 17th of October 2002 Granite Belt Bushfires A bushfire that raged through the Granite Belt region claime...
31st of December 1897 Hobart and Region, Tasmanian Bushfires For a week, the Hobart area had bushfires, becoming very dangerous on 31 December (1897). 11th of December 2006 Tasmanian Bushfires Two major fires (of about 15 fires across the state) threatene...
People Injured 70 People Affected 15,000 People Homeless 600 Over 200 buildings were destroyed (38 destroyed in Illawarra region), including at least 150 homes, and deaths occurred in several regions, but mainly in the lower Blue Mountains. Reports of de...
19th of January 1961 Dwellingup and South-Western, West Australia On 19 January, after several days of hot weather and low humidity spawned several fires, a chain of thunderstorms swept the area extending from Mundaring in the north to Manjimup in the sou...
Eyre Peninsula Bushfire 10th of January 2005. 1st of February 1980 First 'Ash Wednesday' Adelaide Hills, SA: Known in SA as the first 'Ash Wednesday', large bushfires raged through the Adelaide Hills resulting in 51 homes being destroyed and badly affecti...
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