Author: James Fyfe

Twenty-four alleged firestarters have been arrested in Australia after police clamped down on people deliberately starting fires.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/australia-bushfires-police-crack-down-on-deliberate-firestarters.html
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Author: Alan Jones

The ABC were at it again last week, fawning over 23 former fire and emergency leaders who commented, outside their area of expertise, about an alleged relationship between bushfires and climate change.

Article: https://volunteerfirefighters.org.au/it-is-high-time-bureaucrats-and-politicians-stopped-blaming-climate-change-for-a-bushfire-crisis-that-is-very-much-of-their-own-making-and-is-putting-lives-at-risk
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Author: Hamish McNeilly

A swarm of flies try to flee a fridge before it is closed, taped up and thrown on a skip.

Soon, two skips are filled with trash from inside the abandoned Dunedin home.

"There is a real story to be told here," owner Carol Boyd says.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/116672637/dunedin-house-left-to-squatters-then-sold-by-bank-after-family-vanishes
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Author: Robyn Wuth

Almost 100 firebugs have deliberately started blazes across Queensland that have destroyed homes and consumed thousands of hectares of bushland.

Some 65 fires continued to burn across the state on Friday, jumping from 55 reported on Thursday, as the fire threat deepened heading into the weekend.

Article: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/dozens-of-firebugs-blamed-for-destructive-queensland-fires-20191220-p53m1i.html
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Author: NZDF

We’ve sent the first of our three Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopters to undertake transport tasks to support Defence Australia's efforts in tackling the Australian fires. This week we’ll also be sending two New Zealand Army Combat Engineer Sections as well as a command element.

Article: https://medium.com/@nzdefenceforce/first-nzdf-contingent-departs-to-support-australian-fires-bf223f91c66c
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Author: TVNZ

The comedian and mental health advocate suffered serious injuries when he came off his motorcycle near Paeroa around midday on Friday.

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/mike-king-recovering-in-waikato-hospital-after-motorcycle-crash
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Author: Bevan Rapson

This story was originally published by North & South and is republished with permission.

OPINION: For a week or two in November, we seemed to be up to our necks in the strange, anachronistic and sometimes downright creepy world of the royal family.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/118605022/royal-flush-how-long-before-nz-pulls-the-chain-on-the-monarchy
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