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Australia's new Fire Danger Rating System's impact on harvest bans to be tested by Esperance Shire

A major cropping region worries a new national fire danger rating system could lead to more harvest bans.

ABC News · Sep 6, 2022

Farmers reeling from 'preventable' summer bushfires demand inquiry

Farmers demand answers six months after a devastating fire, sparked by an authorised burn, scorched 45,000 hectares, destroyed property, and killed 1,000 livestock.

ABC News · Aug 4, 2022

Series of cold fronts set to see wild weather in Western Australia continue until Wednesday

Wild weather which damaged properties, tore down power lines and uprooted trees in Western Australia's south overnight is set to continue lashing the southern half of the state until Wednesday.

ABC News · Aug 2, 2022

WA fires fuelled by 'changing climate', authorities say, as emergency warnings downgraded

The threat eases from four destructive bushfires in Western Australia's south after they razed several properties and critically injured one man over a horror weekend for fire crews.

ABC News · Feb 6, 2022

Watch and act bushfire warning for Nambeelup and Stake Hill, south of Perth

A fire that threatened lives and homes near Mandurah south of Perth is downgraded, with a watch and act warning issued for parts of Nambeelup and Stake Hill.

ABC News · Feb 1, 2022

Gascoyne bushfires burn for two weeks, killing livestock, destroying land and devastating pastoralists

Ongoing bushfires have destroyed more than 340,000 hectares of land, and hundreds of livestock, in WA's remote Gascoyne.

ABC News · Jan 20, 2022