Thursday April 22, 2021
21:07 AEST
A month after severe flooding, residents of a northern New South Wales holiday park are struggling to rebuild and some desperately need help.
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04:20 AEST
Four backpackers have been winched to safety after they were trapped by floodwaters in a far north Queensland valley for several days.
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Wednesday April 21, 2021
02:27 AEST
It was something Colin McDonald never thought he'd see.
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00:58 AEST
Heavy rain is continuing to lash parts of Far North Queensland with emergency services attending dozens of jobs overnight.
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00:23 AEST
Weather journals kept by Australia's early settlers, detailing daily observations decades before official record keeping began, are expected to shed light on weather variability in one of the world?s climate change hotspots.
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Tuesday April 20, 2021
07:15 AEST
Temperatures around Melbourne have dropped more than 5 degrees Celsius in 90 minutes as a gusty cold front moves across the state.
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05:58 AEST
Roads have been cut and rivers have burst their banks in parts of Far North Queensland, as heavy rain continues to drench the region.
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Monday April 19, 2021
22:56 AEST
The entire New South Wales coast experienced its wettest week ever during last month's floods, according to a (BOM).
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21:48 AEST
After introducing thousands of dung beetles to her property, a Queensland grazier is seeing incredible results.
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21:15 AEST
The Bureau of Meteorology has warned parts of Far North Queensland could expect daily rainfall totals of up to 300 millimetres in coming days.
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09:01 AEST
Waterholes in the Red Centre have been transformed into a lush oasis for Australia's iconic green and gold budgerigar.
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Sunday April 18, 2021
23:22 AEST
Residents across parts of Adelaide have awoken to the smell of smoke, with a burn-off in the Adelaide Hills believed to be the cause.
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Saturday April 17, 2021
23:30 AEST
As parts of Queensland revel in the liquid gold brought by La Niña, a mother in a former mining town pours water left in a glass back into a plastic bottle.
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23:12 AEST
Residents of Goondiwindi didn't run for higher ground when floodwaters reached major levels in the Macintyre River this month.
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13:55 AEST
Much of the coming week or so looks like staying cooler than average in Australia's southeast due to the passing of frequent fronts which also bring the chance of snowfalls to the peaks.
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02:22 AEST
A cyclone on one side and flooding rains on the other has set up an unusual autumn break for the far east and west this year.
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Friday April 16, 2021
21:23 AEST
Record cattle prices are making it hard for producers trying to restock and may put the brakes on the national herd's drought recovery.
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08:31 AEST
The federal government has announced a disaster recovery payment and allowance for people affected by Tropical Cyclone Seroja is being extended, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison toured the cyclone-struck region.
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07:42 AEST
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has been sent to Western Australia's Mid West region to help thousands of people get back on their feet after Tropical Cyclone Seroja carved a path of destruction through the state.
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05:08 AEST
After volunteering for BlazeAid for more than 12 months since the 2019?20 bushfires tore through his community, Bowraville farmer Bryan Watts has found himself on the other side of the fence following the recent floods.
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02:15 AEST
A disaster-hit grower who hosted Agriculture Minister Mark Furner on his flattened banana farm says the MP's claims he was unaware of requests for wage subsidies are wrong.
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Thursday April 15, 2021
04:53 AEST
Frustrated Mount Morgan residents want a long-term solution to their dwindling town water supply in central Queensland, as carting water is costing the region's ratepayers $70,000 a week.
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02:59 AEST
Fernanda Borges remembers Australia assisting Timor-Leste when the tiny country was struggling with violence after its independence vote.
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02:22 AEST
A not-for-profit helicopter rescue service is due to launch in Carnarvon in the middle of this year, filling a much-needed rescue gap across a huge swathe of the Gascoyne and Pilbara.
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Wednesday April 14, 2021
23:01 AEST
Constable Bryan Powell had to call on every bit of his helicopter rescue training during his first week on the job.
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22:36 AEST
One of Australia's best mixed-farming operations with more than 6,000 megalitres of water entitlements has sold for a speculated price of about $100 million.
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07:59 AEST
The University of Melbourne's Dookie Campus has been named as the site for the multimillion-dollar Drought Resilience Adoption Hub in Victoria.
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06:00 AEST
A man severely injured in a farm accident in an area hit by flooding rains just days earlier says he owes his life to his neighbour's dog.
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03:52 AEST
Storm-stricken banana farmers have cautiously welcomed the Queensland Government's latest move to increase assistance grants as they battle to recover from the disaster.
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Tuesday April 13, 2021
23:37 AEST
Cyclone victims could be left homeless and facing a two-year wait to rebuild amid labour and materials shortages in Australia as they deal with the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Seroja.
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21:23 AEST
People in the small tourist towns of Kalbarri and Northampton in WA woke on Monday morning to utter destruction left in the path of ex-tropical cyclone Seroja.
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13:58 AEST
The power could be out for days in the Mid West region after towns were decimated by ex-Tropical Cyclone Seroja on Sunday night, which ripped roofs off buildings, uprooted trees and flooded streets.
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07:37 AEST
Authorities have closed roads and issued warnings to motorists as dust storms move across South Australia.
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01:28 AEST
Boaties and fishers are continuing to dodge debris submerged in the Hawkesbury River following last month's floods.
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Monday April 12, 2021
23:03 AEST
An Innisfail banana producer says growers are not receiving enough support six weeks after freak winds devastated the region's farms.
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21:44 AEST
Kalbarri has been decimated by ex-Tropical Cyclone Seroja with authorities estimating damage to about 70 per cent of the town's buildings.
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21:38 AEST
Total fire bans have been issued across nine South Australian districts for Tuesday, as "very strong northerly winds" cause dangerous fire weather conditions.
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20:26 AEST
Ex-tropical cyclone Seroja has already made its way into the Great Australian Bight and out to sea, dashing hopes for any desired boost to rainfall in the south-east.
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10:54 AEST
Wild surf has battered Victoria's south-west coast, sweeping large boulders onto roads and trapping a family on an island off Port Fairy.
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04:01 AEST
In a rescue mission of a different kind, hundreds of flood-damaged tools and machinery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are being repaired and returned to their owners to help in recovery efforts.
Like many others on the NSW Mid North Coast, Andy McCoubrie could do little but watch as homes and businesses were flooded three weeks ago, including his own workshop.
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Sunday April 11, 2021
20:49 AEST
It is a map that tells an encouraging story for most of Australia but a cruel tale for an unlucky few.
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18:48 AEST
The destructive core of Tropical Cyclone Seroja is moving inland north of Geraldton after wind gusts of up to 170 kph were reported during landfall.
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01:29 AEST
Police believe a body discovered yesterday belongs to a woman who went missing from the New South Wales Mid North Coast during last month's floods.
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01:10 AEST
Salina Barreto has relatives in Timor-Leste whose homes have been washed down mountains after recent flooding and landslides.
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Saturday April 10, 2021
22:49 AEST
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reached a milestone 421 parts per million last weekend, the highest concentration in 3.6 million years according to the .
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11:57 AEST
A yellow alert has been issued for people in or near Carnarvon, down to Kalbarri, but not including the Kalbarri or Carnarvon townsites.
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01:17 AEST
A second tropical cyclone has formed off Western Australia, triggering a blue alert across a major section of the state's coastline from just south of Coral Bay to Geraldton.
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Friday April 9, 2021
11:14 AEST
A cattleman almost lost his trusty companions who risked it all when rescuing dozens of stranded cattle in the NSW Mid North Coast floods.
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08:37 AEST
When the floods came, Markus dos Santos lost almost everything.
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05:21 AEST
Beach erosion and extremely hazardous boating conditions are expected across most of the South Australian coast this weekend, with a massive swell prompting the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to warn people to stay away from affected cliffs and beaches.
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00:06 AEST
The paddocks are green, the cows are happy, and many farmers are smiling after weeks of rain.
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Thursday April 8, 2021
20:55 AEST
As a pack of tropical lows looms off the WA coast, the latest forecast is for the biggest, Tropical Cyclone Seroja, to continue south-west and turn towards the coast on Saturday.
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08:48 AEST
The cyclone brewing off the coast of Western Australia has now been joined by two other tropical lows nearby, adding to an already rare weather event.
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03:15 AEST
James Archer says his wife is a true hero for helping save their young family when floodwaters surrounded their remote cabin.
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00:25 AEST
Tasmania experiences an amazing range of weather that can be beautiful or bleak.
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Wednesday April 7, 2021
22:59 AEST
For the past 12 months, Mungindi residents have had little to smile about.
The border town ? split between Queensland and New South Wales ? lost its only supermarket and butcher in a massive fire last September, compounding weeks of stress over COVID-19 border restrictions that cut the community off from key services.
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10:52 AEST
A rare weather phenomenon is developing off the West Australian coast as two brewing cyclones look set to interact this week.
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02:42 AEST
In 2016, an aluminium boat provided the perfect setting for Brad Gow's wedding proposal.
Five years later, it has provided another silver lining for his flood-ravaged family ? finding its way home after being swept away in a raging river.
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Tuesday April 6, 2021
20:54 AEST
Bushfires, drought, and heatwaves have smashed the population of native greater gliders in New South Wales' Blue Mountains by around 60 per cent, new research has found.
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19:40 AEST
More than 10 dams in south-east Queensland are overflowing after steady rain but the region's largest, Wivenhoe Dam north-west of Brisbane, has missed out, authorities say.
Residents in south-east Queensland are being asked to conserve water as dams central to the region have not received as much rainfall as their coastal counterparts during the deluge over the last week.
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04:02 AEST
Queensland tourism operators say they've had "doubly bad luck" this Easter weekend, with last week's lockdown and poor weather prompting waves of cancellations across the state.
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00:50 AEST
In my 20 years living and raising our family in Port Macquarie, on the NSW Mid North Coast, I have never seen the floodwater come so high around our house.
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Monday April 5, 2021
09:47 AEST
The Australian government says it "stands ready" to help Timor-Leste after devastating floods hit the country, forcing thousands to take refuge and leaving at least 27 people dead.
The fledgling democracy was hammered by intense rain and storms on the weekend, sending surging torrents of water through towns and villages, and turning the streets of the capital Dili into canals.
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02:16 AEST
A severe weather warning for south-east Queensland has been cancelled as a low pressure system sits further offshore, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says.
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Sunday April 4, 2021
21:49 AEST
In November 2019, the Mid North Coast of New South Wales was ravaged by bushfires, prompting researchers to conduct a study on the region's platypus numbers nine months later.
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12:07 AEST
Parts of Queensland are bracing for extreme weather overnight and into Easter Monday, with central and coastal regions already copping a drenching amid several wild weather warnings.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued a severe weather warning for parts of the Wide Bay, Burnett and south-east coast regions, stretching from Seventeen Seventy down to Bribie Island.
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Saturday April 3, 2021
23:08 AEDT
South East Queensland residents have been warned to stay home on Easter Monday, with severe weather forecast to bring rain, hail and damaging winds.
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21:25 AEDT
Widespread rain and flooding have put drought-affected communities in south-west Queensland on the path to recovery.
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