Bushfires: earlier detection could save billions

Steve Evans
Updated October 6 2020 - 12:14pm, first published September 9 2020 - 12:30am
Experts say minutes could make a difference. Picture: Karleen Minney
Experts say minutes could make a difference. Picture: Karleen Minney

Billions of dollars would be saved if Australia spotted and tackled new bushfires earlier, according to new research published by the Australian National University.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

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Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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