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Black Summer: 'The trauma remains, we don't just move on'


Veronica Coen, Quaama
Last Christmas Veronica Coen and her family enjoyed lunch on her newly-constructed deck overlooking dry bushland in the quaint town of Quaama.
The social worker had just finished renovating her home and was thrilled to have her five children and grandkids over for the holidays.
Next week, she will host Christmas again but under a gazebo on a vacant block where her dream home used to be. Ms Coen s 100-year-old Blacksmith cottage was razed last New Year s Eve when fire tore through the Bega Valley in the early hours of the morning. The 60-year-old lost almost everything. ....

Quaama , New-south-wales , Australia , Eurobodalla , Currowan , Bateman-bay , Western-australia , Moruya , Nerrigundah , Lake-conjola , Conjola-lake , Tuross-river