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    January 6, 2026
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    Experts Sound Alarm for Australia on Urban Fire Risk like LA

    The report comes after devastating fires claimed the life of a firefighter, and destroyed dozens of homes across New South Wales and Tasmania in December 2025. […]
    January 6, 2026

    When cities burn: Could the Los Angeles fires happen here?

    Our new analysis brings together the latest science, climate trends and fire behaviour research to provide the answer.   The uncomfortable truth is that many of […]
    September 18, 2025
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    Crisis situation remains for emergency responders, communities under new climate target.

    Already, communities and emergency services are struggling to respond to more intense, and frequent disasters including longer, and hotter heatwaves, bigger, more destructive bushfires and repeated […]
    September 15, 2025
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    Former emergency leaders: National Climate Risk Assessment should set alarm bells ringing

    The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action say the assessment gives a confronting but not surprising picture of the escalating risks climate change poses to Australians. The […]
    September 15, 2025
    An intense bushfire rages through a forest

    STATEMENT: ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT: RISK ASSESSMENT WARNS OUR POINT OF NO RETURN ON CLIMATE APPROACHES

    Since the turn of the century we have seen more and more extreme weather events fuelled by climate change. Record-breaking floods, devastating storms, deadly heatwaves and […]
    September 9, 2025

    3 things to expect from the National Climate Risk Assessment and 3 things that won’t be in it (but should be)

    Nearly five years ago, the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements—sparked by the Black Summer bushfires—identified a major gap: Australia did not have a single, […]