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Westpac offers to pay one year of mortgages for bushfire victims
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Editorial: Australia needs to face up to climate change
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Ridiculous debate at centre of Australian fire crisis
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Australian PM's popularity plunges as another firefighter dies
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Thousands sign petition to bring koalas over from fire-hit Oz
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'One of the largest animal disasters since the ice age'
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PM concedes bush fire handling errors
'There are things I could have handled on the ground much better.'
Aussie bush-fires: Firefighter dies battling Victoria blaze
The Victorian bush-fire death toll has risen to four.
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''When we walked back we didn't expect to have a house.''
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Over 1 billion animals killed in Aussie bush-fires
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Lawyer a "generous man, always helping his family and his community".
Some of Australia's smallest species could be lost to wildfires
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NZDF sends more support to Australia
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Disgraced Kiwi priest dies suddenly in Sydney
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Fresh melon imports suspended after fruit disease found
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Father charged with newlyweds' murder
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