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| NSW and Victoria fires live: man found dead in Australia bushfires and hundreds of homes feared destroyed – latest updates | |
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| East Gippsland fires claim homes in Buchan, Sarsfield and Mallacoota, and reports of up to 50 properties lost in Conjola Park in New South Wales | |
| The NSW RFS is giving an update on today’s fires: | |
| For a recap of the day’s events, you can head here: | |
| And neither will images like this: | |
| I don’t think these images are going to leave anyone’s minds anytime soon: | |
| Firefighters are taking advantage of the slightly cooler conditions to try and get ahead of what is coming on Saturday - these are some of the backburning operations underway at the moment. | |
| There are a lot of people desperately trying to get information – or let loved ones know they are OK. By the by – Telstra’s contract to run Australia’s payphone network, ends this year. | |
| The report of Mick Roberts’ death brings the fire death toll, since Monday, to four. | |
| Twelve people have lost their lives this season, including three RFS volunteers. | Twelve people have lost their lives this season, including three RFS volunteers. |
| Almost 1,000 homes have been lost since July, when the fires began. | Almost 1,000 homes have been lost since July, when the fires began. |
| From Townsville to Victoria: | From Townsville to Victoria: |
| More tragic news – from AAP: | More tragic news – from AAP: |
| Speaking of Australia and climate change, David Littleproud doubled down on that on ABC AM radio this morning. | Speaking of Australia and climate change, David Littleproud doubled down on that on ABC AM radio this morning. |
| Kim Landers: After all of this, we’ve seen incident controller, after incident controller, and plenty of experts say that they have seen nothing like this before. Do you acknowledge that the federal government now has to do more about climate change? | Kim Landers: After all of this, we’ve seen incident controller, after incident controller, and plenty of experts say that they have seen nothing like this before. Do you acknowledge that the federal government now has to do more about climate change? |
| David Littleproud: Well, we are and continue to, we’ve made our commitments, internationally and we intend to [keep them]. | David Littleproud: Well, we are and continue to, we’ve made our commitments, internationally and we intend to [keep them]. |
| Landers: You’ve made those commitments internationally, I know the government says it will live up to those commitments, but there are a lot of people saying more needs to be done, something more than just meeting those commitments. | Landers: You’ve made those commitments internationally, I know the government says it will live up to those commitments, but there are a lot of people saying more needs to be done, something more than just meeting those commitments. |
| Littleproud: That’s what we will have to do to meet those commitments and we continue to make those endeavours and that is what we continue to look to, to actually supplement renewable energies, we have given subsidies to those to get them up to a point, to get them competitive from a market prospective, so the reality is the government continues to work through it. | Littleproud: That’s what we will have to do to meet those commitments and we continue to make those endeavours and that is what we continue to look to, to actually supplement renewable energies, we have given subsidies to those to get them up to a point, to get them competitive from a market prospective, so the reality is the government continues to work through it. |
| All industries, even in agriculture, which equates to 17% of reductions of emissions are looking to get to carbon neutrality by 2030 themselves, so industry and government are working together to ensure we do our bit. | All industries, even in agriculture, which equates to 17% of reductions of emissions are looking to get to carbon neutrality by 2030 themselves, so industry and government are working together to ensure we do our bit. |
| Landers: Do you think the public is going to think that is enough though? | Landers: Do you think the public is going to think that is enough though? |
| Littleproud: It’s not just ... it is also important, it would be unrealistic to think Australia can do it by ourselves. | Littleproud: It’s not just ... it is also important, it would be unrealistic to think Australia can do it by ourselves. |
| We are leading by example and we expect the rest of the world to come with us, because we are 1.3% of emissions and we expect the rest of the world to do their bit as well, because if we all work globally together – and we are working globally in these fires, we have US firefighters, Canadian, New Zealanders. | We are leading by example and we expect the rest of the world to come with us, because we are 1.3% of emissions and we expect the rest of the world to do their bit as well, because if we all work globally together – and we are working globally in these fires, we have US firefighters, Canadian, New Zealanders. |
| If we work together, collaboratively as a world community, then we will be able to meet our emissions reduction targets as a globe, not just Australia. | If we work together, collaboratively as a world community, then we will be able to meet our emissions reduction targets as a globe, not just Australia. |
| AAP has an update on what is happening in Western Australia at the moment: | AAP has an update on what is happening in Western Australia at the moment: |
| He finishes that answer with this: | He finishes that answer with this: |
| Anthony Albanese on coal: | Anthony Albanese on coal: |