... i/ sound as in height, fight, fire, sign Paired text: A Hard Choice Supporting material: Lesson Plan - Bushfires / A Hard Choice Series: Flying Start to Literacy Alternative purchasing options: This title is available in ...
... life" - N.P. Cheney, CSIRO Bushfire Behaviour and Management Group Background to bushfires or wildfires, bushfire cycles, bushfire and wildfire behaviour, how to prepare for bushfire season, the decision - evacuate or ...
... caused by lightning strikes also assist in the regeneration of the landscape. This book tells of one such bushfire. A great story that all children will enjoy and understand. Author: Norah Kersh. Format: Paperback Kids & ...
... Australian outback... Great for readers age 7+ these adventure stories are also full of fascinating facts. In Bushfire Rescue our heroes discover what conditions lead to sudden forest fires, what is causing the planet to ...
... her rule book out of the car window...because what happens in the Outback stays in the Outback. Right? Bushfire Bride - Marion Lennox Dr Rachel Harper just wanted to escape her busy emergency ward and her home life for ...
... getting closer and closer to his home. Then Cara hurriedly slithered up and said 'It's a bushfire!' Grug had never seen a bushfire. 'We should be safe in your house', said Cara, 'because you live under the ground.' Grug ...
'Help me!' I gasped. 'My name is Sam Fox and I'm trapped in a truck . . . There's a bushfire all around me!' It's the holidays and Sam Fox has gone to the high country to stay with his grandparents. While trying to stop ...
... in the only way she can This is the uplifting story of a mother koala who saved her baby from a bushfire, and the dedicated vets who look after them until they are healed and ready to go home. Proceeds from this book ...
... friend, Rachel, notice smoke on the horizon. On a super-hot day, this can only mean one thing. Bushfire! The girls spend an exhausting day helping out at the Australian Wildlife Hospital, caring for the victims of the ...
Age range 13 to 18 What makes a good family? Love or blood? And what if you have to choose between the two? Ethan's parents are in jail; his Aunt works too hard; the new kid, Joshua, has a scar on his arm; a fire storm ...
... truths of human-caused climate change, and what we do about it. Greg Mullins followed his father into fighting bushfires - it was in the blood. He fought major fires around Sydney and the Blue Mountains for decades, and ...
... the hearts of Australians with the reading of his poem To My Country in response to the Australian bushfires. This gorgeous 4 colour book combines Ben's heartfelt words with stunning illustrations by Bruce Whatley. Ben ...
... odds. Meet Bonnie, the kelpie-blue heeler cross, who led her owner to safety through one of the deadliest bushfires in Australia's history; Penny, a Hungarian vizsla, who was dognapped and found 3800 miles from where she ...
... Fry on EarthTime maps From the global impact of the Coronavirus to exploring the vast spread of the Australian bushfires, join authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah as they trace the ways in which our world has changed ...
... hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold. The house lights lower. The auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness. As ...
... s picture book tells the true story of Sparky, an amazing dog who survived the devastation of the Australian bushfires 2019-20. The Wild family adopted Sparky at Christmas time, and when they were forced to evacuate just ...
... and was awarded first place in the inaugural Rust Belt Biennial 2019. His series documenting the 2019-20 bushfires placed second in the 2020 World Press Photo Contest, and his image of a kangaroo rushing past a burning ...
... hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold. The house lights lower. The auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness. As ...
... growth. This outline is based on the narration from Lance Short and secondly, gives some background to bushfires in Australia. Lance Short is from Brisbane, Queensland. He is a Wulgurukaba man from the Townsville area ...
... of the Waratah to the West Gate Bridge collapse to the Granville train disaster to the Black Saturday bushfires, here are twenty-three peacetime disasters that changed Australia forever. A gripping account of the worst ...
... Australian outback, the solo trip is just what she needs. But Jess isn't as alone as she thinks. As bushfires rage, strangers start showing up to seek refuge. To keep them safe, Jess must let them in. Quickly, the guests ...
... truth about what is happening in our tall eucalypt forests. Despite what we are told, logging makes bushfires worse for decades after the chainsaws stop, and kills iconic animals and birds each year in droves, driving ...
... Snowy Mountains found itself in the path of a megafront. Between November 2019 and February 2020, shocking bushfires burnt 18.6 million hectares of land and forests in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. These ...
... on ABC-TV. He has spent more than 25 years reporting stories in Australia and around the world. During the bushfire crisis in January 2020, he presented the ABC flagship program 7.30, which covered the stories and events ...
... with all profits being donated to the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife to assist with bushfire rehabilitation. Author: Carly Moone. Format: Paperback Kids & Children Picture Books & Early Learning Picture Books ...
... estimate more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced during Australia's Black Summer bushfire season. Many species - the koala, regent honeyeater, glossy black-cockatoo, platypus - are inching towards ...
... Australian summer like no other. Record-breaking temperatures and years of severe drought fuelled a series of bushfires that burnt across the country. The major fires peaked during December 2019 and January 2020 and East ...
... picture book, published by Allen & Unwin in 2016, ' Fabish: the horse that braved a Bushfire ' is a true story set in the Black Saturday Bushfires in 2009. It was shortlisted for the CBCA 2017 'Book of the Year' in the ...
... ) lauds A Future in Flames asa book that 'deserves a wide audience among all interested in understanding more about bushfires and what we need to do about them.' As he puts it: 'Yes, it treats issues arising from the ...
... coach business. Above all, Kidman created a mighty cattle empire of more than a hundred stations, fighting droughts, bushfires, floods and plagues of vermin to do so. His enterprise and courage won him a huge fortune and ...
... growth indefinitely. Dwindling water supplies, failing food bowls, increased energy costs, more severe bushfires, severe storms, flooding, coastal erosion, rising transport expenses, housing shortages and environmental ...
... the motor car, the police strike, both world wars and the Vietnam war protests, the gangland wars, Black Saturday bushfires and the use of DNA to solve crimes all formed part of this mosaic. This revised edition of The ...
... seems to know. So how will Dave's investigation impact Brianna's world? While battling the threat of bushfires back in Merriwell Bay, Brianna is faced with challenges that test her relationships with those she loves most ...
... 're in danger. When temperatures soar to 47 degrees one hot summer day, 12-year-old Zeelie hopes the nearby bushfires everyone's talking about aren't heading towards her family's new home. What will they do if the wind ...
... stock overland from Sydney to Melbourne. Their droving encounters many difficulties, crossing several rivers - bushfires - floods - theft of sheep and aborigine conflict. Parallel family stories involve an aborigine ...
Before the bushfires-before the front of flames comes roaring over the hills-the ridges are thick with gums. After the fires, the birds have gone. There is only grey ash and melted metal, the blackened husks of cars. And ...
... with facts, stories and LIFE-SAVING INFORMATION about Australia's most dangerous things - snakes, spiders, sharks, bushfires, floods, cyclones and more. There's also a few cute and cuddly animals that might surprise you ...
... What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles? Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia's climate ...
... loved the Australian bush, and painting it and the animals that live in it. He was 20 km from the Black Saturday bushfires, but remembers the taste of ash in the thick, hazy air, and seeing the glow that night in the sky ...
... loved the Australian bush, and painting it and the animals that live in it. He was 20 km from the Black Saturday bushfires, but remembers the taste of ash in the thick, hazy air, and seeing the glow that night in the sky ...
... , birds and insects disappear from our gardens and plastic waste chokes our shores. The 2019-20 summer saw bushfires ravage the country like never before and young and old alike are rightly anxious. Human activity is ...
... of the South East Forests National Park and the threats that continue to dog their existence, including devastating bushfires. Along the way Blay asks the big questions. What do we really know about these wild forests ...
... over the past 50 years, maximum temperatures have been creeping higher. There have been record droughts, floods and bushfires. Why is this happening and what can we do to stop it getting worse? Author: Carole Wilkinson ...
... inside places and conversation. Of intimacy. Melbourne begins on Black Saturday, the day that bushfires tore through the outskirts of Melbourne, destroying the townships of Marysville and Kinglake, shattering thousands ...
... Marine Conservation Society and Australian Wildlife Conservancy. A response to the devastating 2019-20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia's unique wildlife and highlights its vulnerability ...
... real and immediate threats posed by climate change. Threats that are now upon us, as the 2019/20 Australian bushfires and floods have shown. Flannery sees 2020 as a turning point. He explores the measures at our disposal ...
... destinations such as Sri Lanka, Barbados, the UAE, and crucially relevant topics such as the Australian bushfires and the threat of COVID-19 Brand-new pedagogical features such as in-chapter class activities, key ...
... . Dogs like Maya, a rescue dog who pioneered the technique used to save koalas after the Black Summer bushfires. Or Haole, who continued working as a surf therapy dog while battling cancer, and eighteen-year-old Holly ...
... view of how society has been affected by current events including COVID-19 and the 2019/20 bushfires Updated student and practitioner profiles help students learn practical examples through the voices and perspectives of ...
... herself through her connection to her family's history. These once best friends have gone their separate ways. Bushfires threaten Blue Lake. A series of events lead them back to each other on a second adventure to save ...
... between trees, the movements of birds, suburban trampolines, motherhood, midnight wanderings, the climate crisis, motorbikes, affairs, bushfires and barbie dolls, yet in all this lies a quest for what can be found just ...
... the events and issues facing Australia today, such as as Native Title, the Stolen Generations, the 2020 bushfires, the Black Lives Matter movement, and making a rightful place in the nation for the First Australians ...
... and, together as a nation, it was time to rebuild. But fate had other plans, starting with the worst bushfires in human memory. While large swathes of the country burned, our politicians were either on holidays or giving ...
... Yet the telling of grief here is much the same as in previous years. While tales of devastating bushfires and the crippling consequences of the coronavirus do feature in this anthology, its core remains unchanged: grief ...
... the Black Summer of 2019---20. Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Celermajer ...
... produce the climate emergency, and yet it affects women particularly. Across the Pacific, domestic abuse spikes after bushfires and cyclones. In the global south, climate breakdown forces girls to drop out of school. In ...
... finishing the first draft of The Last Woman in the World , Inga was evacuated twice as bushfires engulfed surrounding settlements. She lives alone near the coast among trees. About the Illustrator Alicia Rogerson is ...
... a reality: each of us must live as if this is already that country. Following the ravages of 2020's bushfires and pandemic on our mental and emotional health and on the economy, Hugh Mackay reflects on the challenges we ...
An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed world Currowan is the gripping account of the massive fire that engulfed the south coast of New South ...
... , Musa charts a journey through the colonial history of South-East Asia, environmental destruction, oceans, bushfires, race in Australia, the isolation and addiction of COVID lockdown, family, lost love and, ultimately ...
Is there life in the clouds of Venus? How could Indigenous burning practices stave off catastrophic bushfires? What do horseshoe bats, raccoon dogs and pet cats have to do with the global pandemic? Science writing tells ...
From vanishing islands to talking flathead and nightmarish bushfires, Ben Walter's visionary Tasmanian fictions are unique in the landscape of Australian writing. An unemployed man chooses only to apply for jobs ...
An engaging and suspenseful novel about one girl's experience of the terrifying Tasmanian bushfires. They huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm ...
... of Australia, it has disappeared completely. So many things have impacted on our koala populations, including drought, bushfires and disease. Mark discusses how we all need to work together to save this iconic Australian ...
... of Australia, it has disappeared completely. So many things have impacted on our koala populations, including drought, bushfires and disease. Mark discusses how we all need to work together to save this iconic Australian ...
... , the military campaign to liberate Mosul, the 2016 US elections and Australia's 2019-2020 bushfires. Shelley Davidow is the acclaimed author of forty-five books including recent international memoirs of displacement ...
... , fraught and uneven, their relationship tests her fears and anxieties. Through their interstate affair, through bushfires and the pandemic, she learns about herself, how her initiations into womanhood shaped who she is ...
... to the disastrous effects of colonisation, from remarkable conservation success in the 1920s to the devastating bushfires of 2019-2020, Clode tells the story of koalas and their complex relationship with humans. Sharing ...
... true story of a brave horse called Fabish, who saved a group of young horses during the Black Saturday bushfires. SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownell Award for Information Books, 2017 Fabish was a handsome ...
Terry Memory built his veggie patch for his family of eight after surviving the Black Saturday bushfires. Determined to become more self-reliant in this era of unpredictable weather events and worsening health caused by ...
... was Australia's rockstar premier. The first woman elected to lead NSW, she steered the state through devastating bushfires, drought and a once-in-a-generation pandemic with a steady hand. To many, she was 'The Woman ...
... of columns from The Australian, readers will traverse the state of play in Australian politics since the 2019 bushfires and the start of the Coronavirus pandemic right up to the 2022 Australian Federal Election. Peter's ...
... the Australian Reptile Park; and rescuing rare turtles and other wildlife after the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires. There is a powerful motivation behind his decision to share stories and lessons from his remarkable life ...
... led major recovery operations over the years, from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires to the 2014 shooting down of flight MH17 and the Whakaari / White Island volcano eruption of 2019. VIFM ...
... landscape design, best practices for protecting your property and vital strategies for reducing the risk posed by bushfires. Suitable for old hands and first-timers alike, and for hobby farms of all shapes and sizes ...
... our growing climate crisis. Nyx lives in the Tasmania of 2091 – deforested, over-mined and affected by bushfires and drought. With sea-levels rising, Tasmania is marooned and abandoned to its fate. Nyx’s widowed father ...
... sourced political trilogy. 'I don't hold a hose, mate.' Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires 'It's not a race.' Scott Morrison, 11 March 2021, on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout About the Author ...
... really weird. Pulled repeatedly back and forth through time, Gil finds himself at all the big Australian bushfires from the last two centuries. He searches across the years, determined to unlock the secret to his family ...
... this year hasn't gone to plan! There's a big art assignment, a drought, a broken wrist AND the biggest bushfires her town has ever seen! Bindi is a verse novel for mid-upper primary students. Written 'for those who plant ...
... examine critical elements of climate change, including sea ice and glacier melt, rising sea levels, bushfires, collapsing ecosystems, shifting ocean currents, and extreme weather events. With knowledge comes power, and ...
Forged with Flames is Ann Fogarty's poignant and compelling story of her experiences of the Ash Wednesday bushfires in 1983 and its devastating aftermath as she struggled to survive the severe burns she sustained to 75% ...
... can be tough at the best of times, but the last few years of seemingly endless droughts, floods and bushfires - not to mention a global pandemic - have made it even more difficult. A Farming Life shares the uplifting ...
... or who've fallen in love with it or with the men working it. Women who've struggled through bushfires, floods, poverty, discrimination and accidents to come out smiling at the other end. Stories of hardship, triumph ...
... and Spain, ruminating on everything from the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster and Australia's Black Summer bushfires to Mary Queen of Scots' beheading, the death of Princess Diana and in-vitro fertilisation. But why ...
... and Spain, ruminating on everything from the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster and Australia's Black Summer bushfires to Mary Queen of Scots' beheading, the death of Princess Diana and in-vitro fertilisation. But why ...
... , to see what is at stake in the decline of the universities, to grasp what was lost during the Black Summer bushfires, and to reckon with the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic-when we learned, he writes, 'how much we ...
... reactions could have been different, and what is needed to improve our handling of future bushfires. Contributors include Sophie Aitken, Danielle Celermajer, Andrew Dowdy, Robyn Eckersley, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Tom ...
... his deep knowledge of weather and climate to inform his decisions, the realities of flash flooding, bushfires and drought presented unexpected challenges. Meditative and wry, Weatherman Goes Bush is a candid memoir about ...
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... describes to a journalist a sentiment common across so many communities: Growing up here, everyone is used to the threat of bushfires. We're used to sirens going off. But when it's on your doorstep and it's been going on ...
... searching for her grandfather, Neville, a photographer who vanished in the Victorian Alps during the Black Friday bushfires. In 1939 Neville is looking for the perfect photo. Neville was once a British WW1 soldier, and ...
... Lost. In one way or another, isn't everyone on the run? A survivor of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires takes asylum with old friends in the Dandenong Ranges. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around the ...
... and powerful novel celebrating the triumph of courage and community, and a love for the land so deep that not even bushfire can erode it. “The book isn't just about the fire,” says Judy. “The book is mostly about the way ...
... . I try not to freak, but the page seems determined to remain blank. Tuesday. Just what I need … a bloody bushfire. While checking the fences, I smell smoke. No visuals, but it seems to be drifting from the east. I rush ...
... my suburban Melbourne home, to the stench of smoke which proceeded to invade every crevice. The tragic bushfires were no longer something I felt horrified about from a safe distance- this pungent and urgent reminder now ...
... evocation of the Australian summer–it reminded me of so many of my own family holidays, and the bushfires scenes were particularly tense and compelling, as my own skies were dark with smoke and the smell of burning ...
... picture books. Today, Ted Prior is on the blog to answer some questions about his new Grug book, Grug and the Bushfire. Read on! Ted Prior To begin with why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you ...
... burnt at harvest. It follows Kenna, who moves to the town her mum grew up in after her mum dies in a bushfire. Kenna finds that there's a lot about her mum's life that she never knew and starts unravelling her past as a ...
... animals. They will experience the effects of climate change as they live through heatwaves and bushfires (experiencing bushfire smoke even if they live hundreds of kilometres away). It's understandable that parents and ...
... is a young theatre usher. She's working this shift as she worries about her girlfriend who is stuck in the bushfire zone. At times, the play's themes reflect the musings of the women. At other times, they seem to drift ...
... sides of the world whose lives are changed forever. One by the smallest bruise. The other by a devastating bushfire. And both by a shocking secret. Miami art curator Courtney Hamilton's world comes crashing down when her ...