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Saturday, 16 November 2019

Reflections on a catastrophic week of bushfires

Podcast from The Guardian
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2019/nov/15/reflections-on-a-catastrophic-week-of-fires

It’s been a devastating start to the bushfire season. Lisa Cox explains how the fire season is changing, and we hear from people living on the frontline of the fires

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Reported by Lisa Cox, presented by Laura Murphy-Oates. Produced by Ellen Leabeater and Joe Koning. Executive produced by Miles Martignoni and Gabrielle Jackson
Fri 15 Nov 2019 04.00 AEDT Last modified on Fri 15 Nov 2019 07.43 AEDT

Find Lisa Cox’s explainer on what catastrophic bushfire conditions mean and how bushfires and climate change are linked here.
Graham Readfearn has factchecked claims that there is a green conspiracy to stop bushfire hazard reduction.
You can read more about what the former Australian fire chiefs have said on this issue here.
Read Carol Sparks, the mayor of Glen Innes, writing for the Guardian here: We’ve been in bushfire hell in Glen Innes – and the scientists knew it was coming
Climate scientist Ned Haughton wrote his thoughts after returning to his hometown of Bobin after it had been razed by bushfires: A letter to my home town Bobin, burned down in the NSW fires but unvanquished.
You can find full coverage of the bushfires here
Ian Wheeler fights a fire on his neighbour's property in Killabakh, NSW, 13 November 2019.
Photograph: Jessica Hromas/The Guardian 
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I was inspired to start this when I discovered old editions of "The Worker". "The Worker" was first published in March 1890, it was the Journal of the Associated Workers of Queensland. It was a Political Newspaper for the Labour Movement. The first Editor was William "Billy" Lane who strongly supported the iconic Shearers' Strike in 1891. He planted the seed of New Unionism in Queensland with the motto “that men should organise for the good they can do and not the benefits they hope to obtain,” he also started a Socialist colony in Paraguay. Because of the right-wing bias in some sections of the Australian media, I feel compelled to counter their negative and one-sided version of events. The disgraceful conduct of the Murdoch owned Newspapers in the 2013 Federal Election towards the Labor Party shows how unrepresentative some of the Australian media has become.
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