The bushfire crisis has shown a way forward for Australia – and revealed who we truly are | Van Badham

The collective selflessness that has come to define us can guide us through a period of nation-building and innovation that can be exported internationally

I started to avoid too much of the bushfire coverage after I heard the stories of the NSW Rural Fire Service volunteers traumatised by the sound of koalas screaming as they burned to death.

We had already had our “watch and act” notice at our small cottage in the countryside, the fearful hours of soaking compost heaps and woodpiles with the hose, tearing anything too plastic and flammable out of the garden, packing our bags.

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