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Oct 1, 2023 · Three major bushfires are burning out of control in eastern Victoria, as thousands of campers who took to the bush for the long weekend pack up and flee. Key points: Multiple fires are burning out of control in Gippsland. Campers in the area for the long weekend are fleeing where they can.
- A Brutal Time
- Recovering Through Community Strength and Capability
- Knowing Community Strengths and Supporting Them
- Listening to Communities
The 2019–20 fires damaged over half of the East Gippsland Shire, an area of over1.16 million hectares. Over 400 dwellings and businesses were lost and four people lost their lives. Areas like Mallacoota were at acute risk. In some areas, communities were under threat for weeks and evacuated repeatedly, exhausting them before the recovery process be...
Many of the strengths needed to drive recovery and resilience are already at the heart of these communities. These capabilities are more diverse and widespread than is often assumed. There is considerable wealth and capacity in some areas, but also a high level of social and economic vulnerability, with some living hand-to-mouth. There is significa...
Recovery processes will never be perfect and we can also no longer assume communities will have time to recover from one disaster before the next arrives. As one person said: In natural hazard prone areas like Gippsland, it’s crucial to know what strengths already exist in the community so they can be harnessed when disaster hits. In other words, w...
It’s crucial communities, governments and the emergency services have a shared understanding of what the priorities are after a disaster and what can be realistically achieved. A database of community capabilities would support more effective planning, policy-making and program development, as would a longer term collaborative project to identify a...
Sep 4, 2024 · Latest East Gippsland news stories and updates. What is happening today? All recent East Gippsland news and developments. Live coverage and timeline of East Gippsland.
The Gippsland massacres were a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people, an Aboriginal Australian people living in East Gippsland, Victoria, committed by European settlers and the Aboriginal Police during the Australian frontier wars.
The 2019–20 Eastern Victorian bushfires had a devastating affect on Victorian communities. Lives were lost, thousands were displaced and many communities were temporarily isolated. There was significant damage to the environment, loss of and damage to significant cultural heritage and large numbers of deaths of wildlife.
Fires have ripped through more than 200,000 hectares in Victoria’s East Gippsland, it was estimated early Tuesday morning, after growing rapidly amid winds and lightning strikes overnight. WARNINGS.
By 25 November, two of the East Gippsland fires, near Bruthen and Gelantipy, had grown to 1,750 ha and 600 ha respectively, while in the north-east of the state, a 300 ha fire was burning in the Mount Bogong area.
