It's not much bigger than a standard oven, but the burner box in this new pyrometric laboratory in Canberra can reach temperatures of 800 degrees Celsius.
As fire season looms, the country’s conservative leader faces calls for robust action — and some see Rupert Murdoch’s hand behind his continued intransigence.
Australia's apocalyptic bushfires earlier this year weren't just unprecedented in their scale and ferocity - they weren't even supposed to be possible yet.
Almost half of the island was incinerated in January and just as the locals were catching their breath from one disaster, the coronavirus outbreak hit.
The critically endangered smoky mouse has been discovered alive and well in the Kosciuszko national park after it was feared the native species had been wiped from the area during the summer bushfire crisis.
A group of senior Australian scientists have warned in an international journal that logging native forests makes fire more severe and is likely to have exacerbated the country's catastrophic summer bushfires.
Just 32 per cent of voters approved of Scott Morrison's handling of the bushfire crisis across the country, with more than half happy with state premiers.
