If this is spring, we're facing a very dangerous summer

By Letters to the Editor
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:45am, first published November 18 2019 - 12:00am

Many recent correspondents have pointed out (correctly) that bushfires have always been a feature of Australian summers. The 1939 bushfire (our worst in history) and the 1983 Ash Wednesday fire, not to mention our own 2003 fire, claimed much more life and property than the recent fires in NSW and Queensland.

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