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Black Saturday - Victorian Bushfires

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February 14th 2009
It looks like you guys are getting a bit of coverage of the bushfires back there. The big fires are not affecting us, they are about an hour and a half form where we are. We're too 'inner city' for them to reach here. There was a smaller fire in the suburb next to where our new house is, they lost 6 houses and think it was arson. There was a fire yesterday in Ivanhoe, which isonly about 6 mile ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Victoria

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more