Understorey: Remember the Embers

This wasn’t just a matter of a few thousand people.  Millions of Australians have been affected by this year’s summer fires.   Moss Vale resident Amanda Morphett reflects on the eerie circumstances that touched many towns and villages up and down the coast and hinterland of New South Wales and Victoria. While last month residents in the Southern Highlands wondered whether to stay or go, this month’s question for the country at large might be: Will the federal government act on the new normal, or will its promised carbon roadmap simply be a route for coal to continue?

(Image: Collection of rained-down burnt leaves, Moss Vale, Amanda Morphett, photo by A Glamorgan)