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Fire recovery ’to cost $16 billion a year’

Scientists say $16b will only partly restore the environmental damage done by the Black Summer fires. Photo supplied by Dan Himbrechts/AAP.
By Tracey Ferrier, Aap Brisbane

It will cost $16 billion a year to partially restore the environmental damage done by the Black Summer bushfires, scientists […]

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