Tag: #NewSouthWales
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Australian state considers lockdown amid growing “source unknown” COVID-19 cases
SYDNEY, March 27 (Xinhua/APP): Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) is considering lockdown after a record 145 “source unknown” COVID-19 cases were reported, the local government said Friday. Until 6:30 a.m. Friday, there was 13 death among 2,985 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia, with 186 new cases since 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, according to the…
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Australian bushfires extinguished, but climate rows rage on
Sydney, Feb 15 (AFP/APP): Australia’s “black summer” of devastating bushfires is finally coming to a close, but bitter arguments over how to tackle climate-fuelled disasters are raging on. When firefighters announced this week that all blazes in the hard-hit state of New South Wales were under control for the first time since September, the relief…
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Downpours to end Australia bushfires within days
Sydney, Feb 10 (AFP/APP): Australia’s months-long bushfires crisis will likely be over within days, officials said Monday as heavy rainfall extinguished several massive blazes and was forecast to douse dozens more as downpours swept south. Days of torrential rains have caused flash flooding in New South Wales and Queensland, dampening once-raging fires that volunteers had…
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Aussie firefighters save extremely rare “dinosaur trees”
SYDNEY, Jan. 16 (Xinhua/APP): Firefighters in Australia have succeeded in protecting an extremely rare grove of ancient trees from destruction, with specialist teams going to extreme measures as bushfires closed in, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. The Wollemi Pines in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales (NSW) state are the only known members of their…
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Australian ‘megablaze’ brought under control
Sydney, Jan 13 (AFP/APP): Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia’s largest “megablaze” under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts, which…
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Australians trapped by bushfires told ‘too late to leave’
Hillville, Australia, Nov 12 (AFP/APP): Dozens of fires fanned by gale-force winds, scorching temperatures and tinder-dry bushland burned out of control in eastern Australia on Tuesday, as residents up and down the coast were warned it was now too late to leave. Thousands of firefighters had spread out across New South Wales in anticipation of…