The Latest Breaking News from Black Summer

Counsel assisting the coroner, Donna Ward SC, said part of the blaze spread across 11 kilometres in one day, considered "extreme and anomalous" fire behaviour at the time.

The long-running NSW coronial inquiry into the Black Summer fires has heard lightning caused a 171,000 hectare bushfire in the Hunter Valley.

Amid a bumper snow season, operators face rising insurance costs of up to 800 per cent as a result of the Black Summer bushfires, which burnt through around 187,000 hectares of the alpine area.

Turquoise parrots were fighting back from the brink of extinction when the Black Summer bushfires wiped out much of their nesting habitat. Small populations in the Snowy Mountains survived by populating unburnt sections of bushland and now the local community is doing everything it can to help them.

Researchers were thrilled to discover several threatened native species are on the rebound after the Black Summer bushfires

Survivors of the Black Summer bushfires feel they've been left out of the national conversation during the federal election campaign as they continue battling trauma.

Ruth Haggar discovered her home was under-insured when she lost it in the Black Summer bushfires and can't understand why politicians are "not speaking up" this federal election.

Anthony Albanese uses his National Press Club address to announce a Labor government would strip hundreds of millions of dollars from two government grant programs and put the money to better use, in an effort to improve the budget bottom line.

After some of the worst fires and floods ever to hit Australia, a new cohort of climate-conscious independents are threatening to shake up the federal election on Saturday, putting the government under pressure in key districts and potentially reshaping the country's political landscape.