• Burnt

  • By: SBS
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • It’s been five years since Australia’s Black Summer bushfires which cost more than 30 lives, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and burnt an area of land almost the size of the United Kingdom. Many people are still dealing with the loss and grief of what happened, and how they were left to pick up the pieces. This SBS News series focuses on one devastating summer, two communities, and the collective grief and determination they needed to get back up on their feet after disaster.
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Episodes
  • 3. Burnt: Next time fire comes
    Dec 26 2024
    Five years on from the Black Summer bushfires, many people are still dealing with the loss and grief of what happened, and how they were left to pick up the pieces. This SBS Podcast series focuses on one devastating summer, two communities, and the collective grief and determination they needed to get back up on their feet after disaster..In episode three of Burnt, we hear what those with first hand experience of climate disasters think governments at every level should take from Black Summer.
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    27 mins
  • 2. Burnt: Who holds the hose?
    Dec 19 2024
    Five years on from the Black Summer bushfires, many people are still dealing with the loss and grief of what happened, and how they were left to pick up the pieces. This series focuses on one devastating summer, two communities, and the collective grief and determination they needed to get back up on their feet after disaster. This is Episode 2 of Burnt, an SBS Podcast., in which we hear how the government responded to the bushfires and how people in Cobargo and Mallacoota banded together when support fell short.
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    30 mins
  • Burnt: No Ordinary Fire Part 1
    Dec 12 2024
    Five years on from the Black Summer bushfires, many people are still dealing with the loss and grief of what happened, and how they were left to pick up the pieces. This series focuses on one devastating summer, two communities, and the collective grief and determination they needed to get back up on their feet after disaster. This is Burnt, an SBS Podcast. In episode one, Sydney Lang revisits the people of Cobargo and Mallacoota to hear how they remember what happened that summer.
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    28 mins

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