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Floods at one end, bushfires at the other. What's behind Australia's climate 'whiplash'

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:20:40
Publish Date: 2026-01-12 18:00:00
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While firefighters in Victoria battle devastating bush fires that have destroyed homes and livestock, at the other end of the country, Queenslanders were bracing for floods from ex-Cyclone Koji.

Today, David Bowman, a professor of pyrogeography and fire science at the University of Tasmania, on what causes this climate whiplash and how our changing climate is worsening our extreme weather.

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