Afternoon Update: fires blaze in Victoria; dozens boycott Adelaide festival; and Toowoomba’s ‘deliciously delusional’ dish

Smoke from the Longwood bushfire outside Seymour on the way to Yea in Victoria. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

Good afternoon – we’re almost at the weekend.

More hard work lies ahead for firefighters in central Victoria, however. A wind change sweeping across the state, combined with catastrophic heatwave conditions not seen since 2019-20, has sparked new bushfires as three people remain unaccounted for.