a history of Australia's bushfire reporting
- Written by Fiannuala Morgan, PhD Candidate, Australian National University
Australia’s Black Summer bushfires of 2019 and 2020 wreaked destruction across South-Eastern Australia. Images of flames crowned trees, engulfed fire trucks and people crowded on beaches and packed in boats were broadcast into our homes.
For European colonists in 19th century Australia, bushfires were a strange, but by no means uncommon...





