Should Australia have a bushfire-star rating for homes?

Katie Burgess
Updated July 9 2020 - 7:05am, first published July 8 2020 - 3:30pm
Ten per cent of homes lost in Shoalhaven were outside the bushfire risk mapping area. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Ten per cent of homes lost in Shoalhaven were outside the bushfire risk mapping area. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Australia's building standards should be overhauled to make homes more resistant to bushfires and other natural disaster, the royal commission has heard.

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Katie Burgess

Katie Burgess

Federal politics reporter

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