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Professor Tim Skinner talks about his Bushfire CRC project "Information Processing Under Stress - Community Reactions." Tim was interviewed at the 2010 Bushfire CRC annual...
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The New Zealand seasonal wildfire assessment is out for summer 2010/2011. In a first, the Bushfire CRC in association with New Zealand agencies organised a New...
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Fire Note 72: The New Zealand seasonal wildfire assessment is out for summer 2010/2011. In a first, the Bushfire CRC in association with New Zealand agencies organised a New...
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In the summer of 1909/10, my Great Grandparents faced the risk of losing everything to a bushfire.  Emily and Charles Handmer lived on a farm 6 kms north of Knowsley near...
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The way people feel and think will influence the way they act when faced with a threat such as the possibility of a bushfire in their area. This project investigated the...
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A person facing a threat has two competing tasks: To manage the threat itself, perhaps by acting. And to manage the emotional response to the threat, referred to as fear control....
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Bushfire CRC PhD student Briony Towers was selected as a top four finalist in the Early Career Scientist Award to present to the CRC Association Annual Conference in Alice...
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Bushfire detection cameras were trialled in Australia last summer in the Otway Ranges, on Victoria’s south-west coast and near Tumut in New South Wales. The cameras were...
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Issue 67 - the bushfire outlook for all regions of Australia in 2010-11
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School-based bushfire education is one way of increasing bushfire awareness and preparedness in vulnerable communities. This research aims to develop a child focussed model of...
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Bushfire detection cameras are being trialled in Australia this summer in the Otway Ranges, on Victoria’s south-west coast and near Tumut in New South Wales. The cameras have...
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Evidence presented to the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission suggested that a significant number of casualties might have been averted if residents had made (and acted upon...
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This project examined the role, scope and limits of Australian bushfire and community safety communication in preparing householders for bushfire. Professor Peter Fairbrother led...
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Wireless wildfire sensor networks
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Online forecasts throughout Australia of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System.
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Can a change in strategy from attack to prioritised defence limit the losses of our worst fires? By Damien Killalea, Director of Community Fire Safety, Tasmania Fire...
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We all knew it could be a bad weekend. With temperatures in the high 40s and strong northerly winds, any fire that began on the weekend of the 7-8 February had the potential to...
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Research has taught us a lot about bushfire management in recent decades. The challenge now is to continue to learn. The Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 are etched in the...
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