Ms Handsjuk had named the home in honour of Phoebe, who died after falling down a twelfth floor waste disposal shaft of her and her boyfriend’s St Kilda apartment block to the compactor below in ...

Improvements including new slow lanes, widening, and realignment on the 27km stretch in East Gippsland will take place at Double Creek, Coolwater Creek and Cape Horn Bay, according to Transport ...

The Australian’s Melbourne bureau, where she covers state and federal politics from a Victorian perspective. She is interested in a range of policy areas including energy, infrastructure, health and ...

Bushfires are strongly driven by weather: hot, dry and windy conditions can combine to create the perfect environment for flames to spread across the landscape. But sometimes the relationship flips: ...

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Five years after the black summer fires devastated the Victorian beach town of Mallacoota many residents are still without permanent homes. Along with the red tape surrounding insurance and approvals ...

In a remote part of Victoria, a deeply divided bushfire-ravaged community realises it can't rely on outsiders to make things better. Harnessing its spirit of self-reliance, the town unites to take ...

A LATROBE Valley consultant has strongly criticised the lack of bushfire expertise on the state government panel investigating the future use of Victoria’s native forest estate. The government has ...

Matthew Leonard is the data editor for Civil Beat and has worked in media and cultural organizations in both hemispheres since 1988. Follow him on Twitter at @mleonardmedia or email mleonard@civilbeat ...

Dan Ilic’s comedic podcast, “A Rational Fear,” has been hosting journalists, comedians, and politicians that dissect issues and policy related to climate change and the environment for a decade. Over ...

The 2019-2020 Australian bushfires threw up so much ash into the atmosphere that it resulted in a cooling of the southern Pacific and hence a La Niña climate phenomenon, a new study says. Volcanic ...