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Future bushfires will be worse: we need to adapt now

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
image116 houses were lost at Wye River in Victoria, but nobody was killed. AAP Image/Julian Smith

The devastating fires that struck Wye River in Victoria on Christmas Day are, from an emergency response perspective, a success story. Despite the loss of 116 houses in the coastal town and nearby Separation Creek, nobody was killed.

The fire may have...

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Good Writing vs Good Storytelling

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor

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A friend - both close and a little odd odd - gave me a novel a few days before I left on a long haul fight.

In The Unlikely Event.

Judy Blume’s first novel in fifteen years, I like to believe that the gift was based on a debate we’d had about Michael’s name for his penis in Blume’s Forever. As opposed to her thinking...

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