Tag: Fire-hit Australia gets $1.4bn recovery fund

Fire-hit Australia gets $1.4bn recovery fund as troops deployed

by Glenda KWEK SYDNEY, Australia  (AFP) — Reserve troops fanned out across fire-ravaged regions in three Australian states on Monday after a horror weekend, as the government pledged $1.4 billion over two years to help recover from the devastating months-long crisis. Catastrophic bushfires have turned swathes of land into smouldering, blackened hellscapes and destroyed an area about the size of the island of Ireland, according to official figures, with authorities warning the disaster still has weeks […]