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	Bushfires rage across four Australian states - Boston.com
		Bushfires burned across four Australian states on Tuesday, destroying houses and flening an area larger than Luxembourg, with one major fire front stretching 250 km (155 miles).
		In Victoria, bushfires sparked by lightning strikes continued to burn in rugged bushland in the northeast of the state, destroying more than 280,000 hectares (692,000 acres).
		And southwest of the Australian capital, Canberra, firefighters were struggling to contain a wildfire fanned by strong winds near the mountain town of Tumut.
	www.boston.com /news/world/australia/articles/2006/12/12/bushfires_rage_across_four_australian_states (494 words)

	2003 Canberra bushfires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canberra bushfires of 2003 caused severe damage to the outskirts of Canberra, the Australian capital city.
		The Bushfire Recovery Taskforce was established to advise the ACT Government, provide leadership for the recovery and act as a bridge between Government agencies and the community.
		The ACT Bushfire Memorial was commissioned by the ACT government to acknowledge the impact of the fires, and thank the many organisations and individuals who played crucial roles in the fire fighting and recovery efforts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canberra_bushfires_of_2003 (2101 words)

	Bushfires threaten Australian towns - Boston.com
		Firefighters battling bushfires threatening numerous towns and communities in southern Australia on Thursday are now face a new risk -- severe thunderstorms with wind gusts of up to 68 miles per hour.
		CANBERRA (Reuters) - Firefighters battling bushfires threatening numerous towns and communities in southern Australia on Thursday are now face a new risk -- severe thunderstorms with wind gusts of up to 68 miles per hour.
		In 2003, bushfires destroyed a slice of Australia three times the size of Britain, fueled by one of the worst droughts in a century.
	www.boston.com /news/world/australia/articles/2006/01/26/bushfires_threaten_australian_towns (562 words)

	Bushfires could have been stopped [ 04aug03 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mr McLeod said the event was unique in the experience of the residents of Canberra and its surrounds and probably of all the fire-fighters.
		VOLUNTEER firefighters have called for local experts to be given complete control of bushfires ahead of the release today of a report into the January firestorm which devastated Canberra.
		Mr Lonergan said bushfire control should be left to experts in the field who knew the local area.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~sai/aug04_Bushfirestop.htm (512 words)

	ABC Canberra Bushfire Crisis
		At 666 ABC Canberra, we hope you will be able to use this website to think about what happened as well as keep up to date on the latest developments.
		Since the terrible bushfires which devastated Canberra in January this year, 666 ABC Canberra's Tritia Evans has followed the Buckman family as they rebuilt their lives.
		This photograph was taken by Chris Arndt was taken on 16 January 2003, late in the afternoon from Gungahlin with the camera pointing to the setting sun in the west.
	www.abc.net.au /canberra/bushfires (365 words)

	Canberra : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Canberra is also the seat of government and the home of thousands of civil servants -- enough to make almost any freethinking, individualist Aussie shudder.
		Canberra has plenty of open spaces, parklands, and monuments, and an awful lot to see and do -- from museum and gallery hopping to ballooning with a champagne glass in your hand or boating on Lake Burley Griffin.
		Canberra was born after the Commonwealth of Australia was created in 1901.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/canberra/1440010001.html (430 words)

	Bushfires could have been stopped [ 04aug03 ]
		Mr McLeod said the event was unique in the experience of the residents of Canberra and its surrounds and probably of all the fire-fighters.
		Captain of the southern ACT volunteer bushfire brigade Val Jeffery warned Canberra was just as likely to lose another 500 homes this summer if fires were sparked because government bureaucracy had failed to take adequate action over winter.
		Mr Lonergan said bushfire control should be left to experts in the field who knew the local area.
	twm.co.nz /aug04_Bushfirestop.htm (512 words)

	BushFires ClearlyExplained.Com
		Bushfires are natural phenomena most common in Australia but also occur in many places around the world where there is plenty of wood, leaves or forest that can burn.
		Bushfires are also called wildfires, and the US expression may include brushfires or forest fires.
		Bushfires have caused damage including destroyed crops and burnt sheep near the NSW areas of Parkes which is close to one of the world's largest Radio Telescopes.
	clearlyexplained.com /nature/earth/disasters/bushfires.html (904 words)

	CNN.com - State of emergency in Australian capital - Jan. 18, 2003
		While Canberra is often coined the "bush capital," residents were taken by surprise at the fire's spread into the city and dashed home to hose their roof and put out fires sparked by embers.
		While hundreds of foreign diplomats live in Canberra, parliament is not in session and the prime minister and most federal politicians are out of the city for the summer.
		To the southwest of Canberra, the worst bushfires in 50 years were sweeping out of control through the Snowy Mountains.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/01/18/canberra.bushfires (625 words)

	Condolences over the bushfires in Canberra, Australia
		Canberra has been hit by horrendous bushfires on 18 January 2003, claiming lives of innocent people and inflicting tremendous damage upon houses and public facilities while forcing thousands of people to evacuate.
		The Indonesian Embassy in Canberra has contacted the crisis centres which confirm that there are no Indonesians victimized by the bushfires.
		The Indonesian Embassy in Canberra has conveyed its deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families, the people of Canberra, and the Australian Capital Territory Government as well as the Australian Federal Government.
	www.kbri-canberra.org.au /press/press030120ea.htm (118 words)

	Bushfire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bushfire is a wildfire that occurs in the bush (collective term for forest, scrub, woodland or grassland of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia).
		In southeast Australia, bushfires tend to be most common and most severe during summer and autumn, in drought years, and particularly in El Niño years.
		In the southwest, similarly, bushfires occur in the summer dry season and severity is usually related to seasonal growth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bushfires (957 words)

	Naylor's Canberra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It seemed the Minister for Justice and Customs’ national taskforce on trafficking in women had busted up a number of brothels in Melbourne, Sydney and two in Canberra where desperate unfortunates were held as virtual prisoners to work off their debts to people smugglers.
		Canberra has the highest average income per capita of any Australian city, and the highest per capita number of university graduates; but also the highest per capita number of heroin overdoses.
		While often derided as a “bureaucrat’s socialist utopia” where everyone works for the government or a university, there is a segment of the population who are genuinely struggling, or stuck on welfare in government housing, and who probably feel all the more disenfranchised amidst the relative affluence.
	naylorscanberra.blogspot.com /2003_02_16_naylorscanberra_archive.html (2243 words)

	18/1/2003 -- Australian bushfires rage into capital
		CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) -- Fifty to 100 homes are burning in the Australian capital as "firestorm" conditions broke out, pushing forest fires into Canberra suburbs and pouring ash and smoke over parliament and the embassy district.
		The worst bushfires in 50 years were sweeping out of control through the Snowy Mountains, to the southwest of Canberra, and the country's main mountain resort of Thredbo had been evacuated, authorities said on Saturday.
		In Canberra, authorities declared a state of emergency as thick smoke blocked out the sun and residents rushed home to hose down roofs and fight dozens of fires that have broken out from falling ash and embers.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=19471 (625 words)

	Jennifer Marohasy: Bushfires Archives
		Bushfires are tremendous drama, complete with cataclysmic vision of houses and forests going up in flames, farmers shooting burnt sheep, sad people raking through the remnants of their houses picking up twisted trinkets, hillsides of flened forest.
		In 2003 roughly 500,000 hectares of forest from East Gippsland to Canberra was burnt.
		The 2003 ‘State of the Environment Report’ for the Australian Capital Territory lists that nearly 6.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide were emitted into the atmosphere during the January 2003 Canberra wildfires: equivalent to 1.6 million new cars on the road for a year.
	www.jennifermarohasy.com /blog/archives/cat_bushfires.html (12260 words)

	eMJA: Emergency response to the Canberra bushfires
		We describe the response at The Canberra Hospital, which is the regional major trauma service and the community hospital for the southern suburbs of the city.
		Woden Town Centre is in the centre of the skyline, with The Canberra Hospital on the left.
		Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory, is a planned city with a population of about 300 000.
	www.mja.com.au /public/issues/181_01_050704/ric10039_fm.html (2071 words)

	CSU magazine, newTIMES : Internet and traditional societies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Four Charles Sturt University experts provide comments on the huge bushfires that burnt over one million hectares of bush and grazing lands in eastern Australia in January and February 2003.
		Dr Lunt said the extent of the 2003 fires was worsened by the horrendous “1-in-100-year” drought which has gripped Australia.
		Ed: CSU is closely involved in the nation’s bushfires, with up to 100 graduates involved in bushfire management around Australia.
	www.csu.edu.au /division/marketing/tms/13_1/story_bushfires.htm (1218 words)

	Canberrafire
		Canberra's Government has rejected claims that it failed to prepare adequately for the firestorm that killed four people and destroyed 368 [419 at last count] homes in the worst bushfires to hit an Australian city.
		While tornadoes are normally born in the updraughts of thunderstorms, winds interacting with the rapidly rising columns of intense heat generated by the bushfires could easily have produced rotating masses of air.
		On Saturday, as Canberra was about to burn, Gould and a fellow scientist drove about 25 kilometres south of the city to study spot fires on grasslands by the Monaro Highway.
	www.gaiaguys.net /Canberrafire.htm (6589 words)

	Will climate change increase bushfires? - Media Release 14 February 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, today released the report Climate change impacts on fire weather in south-east Australia, produced for the governments by the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology.
		"Bushfire is a natural and devastating part of the Australian summer landscape, with communities across our country regularly struggling with the loss of lives, loss of property and huge financial costs of bushfires," Senator Campbell said.
		"The south-east region of Australia is particularly vulnerable to bushfire - along with southern California and southern France it is identified as one of the three most fire-prone areas in the world.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/env/2006/mr14feb06.html (452 words)

	Beating bushfires - Property - Domain - theage.com.au
		BUSHFIRE season is here again and, for those living in wooded areas, this means again ensuring you have properly prepared your property's defences.
		There are also window shutters available, some of which use sensors to detect when a bushfire front is nearing and automatically roll down.
		Justin Leonard, project leader for bushfire research at CSIRO, says the organisation is working on improved outdoor deck designs that would be less susceptible to falling embers.
	www.theage.com.au /news/property/beating-bushfires/2005/12/06/1133829591845.html (321 words)

	Bushfires
		On February 4, 2003 the Senate supported a condolence motion to the families that lost loved ones during the firestorm in Canberra on 18 January 2003.
		The fact is that there is no simple answer to the issue of fuel reduction burning, because of the diversity of forests, topography and climate in Australia and the priorities and land management issues, which of course include the protection of life and property as well as biodiversity.
		Residents of Canberra do not wish for their misfortunes to be played off as political stunts, which is exactly the game that Liberal members, both ACT and federal, seem to be playing.
	www.katelundy.com.au /bushfires.htm (1647 words)

	Canberra bushfires
		On Saturday 19 January 2003, Canberra experienced it's worst bushfire disaster ever.
		So, containment lines are bulldozed along ridges to the north and west of fire fronts near Canberra, and it's a wait.
		Evacuation centres are busy - thousands of people spend the night camped in schools and community centres around Canberra - either counting their losses or wondering if their house will be there when they return.
	www.adstereo.net /life/canberra.fires (808 words)

	Macquarie University News
		With some fires, like the 1974/75 bushfires that razed 117 million hectares in the Northern Territory, the major cost is to our plant and animal life.
		With others there is also a substantial financial cost – the 2003 Canberra bushfires, for example, were estimated to have cost $300 million.
		We are all able to recall the major bushfires of our time – the recent Canberra fire, the Sydney bushfires of January 1994 that destroyed 200 homes, and most vividly the ‘Ash Wednesday’ fires of February 16, 1983 that torched 2500 houses and killed 75 people.
	www.pr.mq.edu.au /macnews/ShowItem.asp?ItemID=532 (1028 words)

	Australia: The Burning Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The 2003 Canberra bushfires saw 500 homes destroyed and the 1967 Tasmanian fires resulted in the death of 62 people.
		Bushfires in Australia are also an essential part of mother nature's cycle of life, with many plants adapted to regrow after fires.
		Pat Power, the Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra told the Culture and Recreation department following the 2003 Canberra fires that many retained their sense of humour and sense of camaraderie.“It's something that makes me proud to be an Australian,” he said.
	neovox.cortland.edu /oldsite/vox/vox_169/vox_169.html (627 words)

	Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The bushfires that roared through Canberra, Australia, on January 18 2003, was part of one of the worst disasters Australia has ever seen.
		In Canberra, women who had been displaced and traumatised by the fires began to realise that they had their own story to tell.
		The Group was dynamic, with each woman being at different stages of their own recovery process and as such, with the help of the Canberra Bushfire Recovery Centre, we employed an experienced counsellor to continue leading the Group.
	www.gdnonline.org /resources/womens-bushfire-recovery.htm (563 words)

	Building blocks - Planning - Money - Business - Home - smh.com.au
		The Canberra victims were underinsured by 27 to 40 per cent, the report found.
		The report also found that the Canberra home owners had relied heavily on their insurer to help them set the sum insured under their policy.
		As one Canberra fire victim put it: "The single greatest lesson from the bushfires is that in the event of total loss, one is probably destined to be underinsured whatever one's prior good judgment and advice.
	www.smh.com.au /news/planning/building-blocks/2005/11/21/1132421582187.html (1225 words)

	[LINK] Canberra bushfires
		In the Blue Mountains bushfires around Christmas - at the town of Woodford - houses were saved because the brigades had a trail which ran down the back fences.
		Canberra, in fact, seems to have come close to an ideal layout in this sense, but this fire was so bad that it made no nevermind.
		My other point about development planning is that the current fashion in-and-around Sydney is suicidal: let's put a building of maximum size on a block of minimum size (not talking about true medium-density here, but about 200-sq freestanding houses on a 1/6th acre block, with a single car's width between walls).
	mailman.anu.edu.au /pipermail/link/2003-January/047639.html (1045 words)

	Australian Cycling Federation \| 070127 Mountain Bike World Championships head 'down under' in 2009
		CORC president Anthony Burton said it was a historic achievement for the ACT to host the World Championships and a major vote of confidence for the local mountain biking community.
		To be staged in Australia's capital city, Canberra, from September 1-6 at the new, purpose-built Stromlo Forest Park, the World Championships will attract more than 750 of the world's top riders from up to 40 countries.
		Spread across 1000 hectares and located 10 minutes drive from the heart of Canberra, the $7.5 million multi-use, purpose-built park was constructed following the 2003 Canberra bushfires that destroyed Mount Stromlo Forest.
	www.cycling.org.au /Content/NavigationMenu/News_and_Media/2007MediaReleases/070127_Mountain_Bike.htm (960 words)

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