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How Australia’s Tourism Industry Is Recovering a Year After the Devastating Bushfires
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Lisa Maree Williams/Getty A keeper at Australian Reptile Park in New South Wales, Australia hand feeds a koala joey.
As golden beams of sunlight dance across the bright blue skies this summer, it s difficult to believe that this time last year, the sun glowed an angry red through a sickly yellow haze.
By early September 2019 the first month of spring the New South Wales holiday town of Byron Bay (where I live) was shrouded in smoke as fires raged through the forests of southeast Queensland and northern NSW. While bushfires aren t an uncommon occurrence this time of year, we knew that we were in for a bad one last season. But we were relatively lucky in my area. For as the days grew hotter and drier, the bushfires that exploded further south burned with a ferocity like we ve never seen. ....

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