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Welcome to a New Core Member

The Bushfire CRC has a new core member. ACT Emergency Services Agency and ACT Parks, Conservation and Lands will become joint core partners of the Bushfire CRC from 1 July 2008. More




Community bushfire safety book launch

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Australia is at the forefront of research on community bushfire safety and resilience according to a new book. Community Bushfire Safety brings together the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Bushfire CRC. More


Bushfire research in mallee bush

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Fire at Ngarkat Conservation Park.


The mallee and heath landscape of Ngarkat Conservation Park in south-eastern South Australia has been deliberately set alight in one of the largest and most comprehensive fire research exercises undertaken in Australia.

More than 100 bushfire researchers and fire agency personnel from around Australia and internationally converged on the parkfor a series of controlled burns under several separate research projects designed to improve fire management in South Australia and nationally. More


Cars put to the test in bushfire conditions

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A burnt out test car used in the research.

Advice for people trapped in their cars during a bushfire has been updated with a groundbreaking study into what happens to a vehicle caught in the middle of a firestorm.

The study of burnovers in civilian passenger vehicles was conducted at the NSW Rural Fire Service Hot Fire Training Facility on the New South Wales south-coast. Seven used cars were subjected to burnover conditions with a gas flame front simulator. More


Fire behaviour - Vesta launch

The findings of Australia’s most extensive study of the behaviour of high-intensity bushfires in eucalypt forests – Project Vesta – provides valuable new tools and information for fire managers across Australia. More


Fire Outlook

Normal to above normal fire potential is expected for much of the 2007-8 fire season.

This is the outlook of fire experts from around Australia that gathered to assess the potential for bushfires over the coming months.More


Public research update for Grampians

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More than 60 residents, land owners and fire and land management staff have heard an update on the latest bushfire research at Stawell in western Victoria. More


Smoke masks on show

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Research by Annemarie De Vos into the performance of bushfire face masks has been highlighted in a showcase of early career scientists by the CRC Association. More


High country research lab

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A unique mobile laboratory that measures greenhouse gases in Australia’s high country has been launched. More


Science media view bushfire regions

Science media 3A visit to the bushfire affected areas around Anakie and the Brisbane Ranges brought a week long conference for science journalists to a close.

More than 500 journalists from around the world attended the World Science Journalists Conference 2007 in Melbourne (16-20 April). In addition to the day tour on the final day, the Bushfire CRC coordinated a session on "Wildfire: Friend or Foe" and an exhibition stand shared with other Cooperative Research Centres. More


 

Cooma public forum

Cooma3 12 April 07Cooma residents have heard about a range of bushfire research projects underway in the region that are likely to influence future land management practices, in Australia and possibly internationally. More


New chairman for Bushfire CRC

board_lfThe Governing Board of the Bushfire CRC has appointed Len Foster AO as its new chairman.

Mr Foster recently retired as chief executive officer of the Australasian Fire Authorities Council and as chairman of the Country Fire Authority of Victoria. Mr Foster took up the position of Chairman of the Bushfire CRC on 1 April 2007.

The inaugural Chairman of the Bushfire CRC, Ian MacDougall, retired from the position on 31 March 2007. More


National Bushfire Forum - Are big fires inevitable?

Nat Forum Canberra Feb 07 145The Bushfire CRC hosted a National Bushfire Forum at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 27 February 2007.
Around 150 people attended the event and heard speakers including three Australian Government ministers (including Attorney General Phillip Ruddock, pictured) and representatives from fire and land management agencies and from the water and forestry industries.
The one-day forum invited experts from around Australia and internationally to discuss the impact that bushfires have on the environment, industry and communities. More


Board meets in national capital

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The Governing Board of the Bushfire CRC met at Parliament House Canberra in late February; the day after the National Bushfire Forum. Special Minister of State, the Hon Gary Nairn (pictured above sitting third from left), met with the Board and spoke of the importance of the Forum and of an ongoing national commitment to bushfire research.


In the news

Coming to grips with price of flames
Gary Morgan, Opinion, The Australian, 20 February 2008.


Modern cars and bushfires
Courier Mail,  9 January  2008.


In the line of fire
The Age, 29 November 2007.
A burning question
Herald Sun editorial, 30 October 2007.

CFA Staff Losses a Burning Issue
Herald Sun, 29 October 2007.


Fires in California
New York Times with Bushfire CRC comment, 28 October 2007.


Fires in California
Australian Science Media Centre with Bushfire CRC comment, 25 October 2007.

Fires in California
ABC Radio PM with Bushfire CRC comment, 24 October 2007.


Change needed for fire loads
Weekly Times, 21 March 2007


Smart fires a burning issue
Weekly Times, 21 March 2007


Firestorm
ABC TV Four Corners, 13 March 2007.


Megafires are the new reality of our summers
Canberra Times, 9 March 2007.


Experts debate bushfire prevention methods
ABC Radio PM program on National Bushfire Forum, 27 February 2007.


Drought and fire could ruin Murray's future
Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 2007.


Burning issue begs a new solution
Kevin O'Loughlin, Opinion Pages, The Australian, 8 January 2007.


Bushfire Summer
Website of four-part TV series, January 2007.


Research links high altitude air with bushfires

Columns of super-dry air that reach the earth’s surface from high altitudes could be responsible for extreme fire behaviour in some of the worst bushfires in Australia ’s history. More

Fire hazards and refugees

A Bushfire CRC report has found that recently arrived Sudanese did not know how to extinguish different types of fires and were unfamiliar with the different types of electrical appliances in Australia.  More

ABC of summer bushfires

Bushfire Summer featured over four nights in January on ABC TV. Bushfire CRC researchers contributed much of their expertise to the television series and the website, both of which offered an overview of bushfires, the personal stories of people on the fire front and the science underway to better understand the bushfire threat.  Go to Bushfire Summer


Mallee fire and fuels

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The Ngarkat Conservation Park in South Australia has been the scene of research into fire behaviour and prescribed burning. More


Stay and Defend or Go Early: new report

Media Sept 06 066 A national briefing for journalists to launch evidence supporting the Prepare, Stay and Defend or Leave Early policy attracted much interest in October 2006. More.


Fire weather warning

Climatologists, meteorologists and fire-agency personnel predicted above-normal fire potential for much of Australia over the summer of 2006-7. More.


Fire managers research workshop delivers results

A total of 203 Bushfire CRC researchers, students and end-users descended upon the University of Wollongong for the Fire Research Managers Workshop. More


Conference draws a crowd

With 1325 delegates from 26 countries, and a trade exhibition of 110 stands, the joint Bushfire CRC and AFAC/International Fire Chiefs’ Association of Asia (IFCAA) Conference 2006 in Melbourne was a success. Reports, presentations, posters.


Smoke covers the state

Much of south east Australia has been covered by bushfire smoke from early December 2006 and into January 2007. More