News by Perry Duffin
Premium Content  A federal inquiry has heard attempts to help bushfire affected NSW communities have been a complete failure with traumatised survivors still living in caravans, bound up by red tape and cut off from relief for working just one hour too long. A Senate committee tasked with learning lessons from the Black Summer bushfire season, on Tuesday, heard from two volunteer agencies trying to rebuild the shattered town of Cobargo, near Bega, on the NSW South Coast. Cobargo symbolised, for many, the worst of the bushfires after a firestorm that raged through town on New Year s Eve levelling much of the historic main street and killing four beloved locals.
Traumatised residents in the bushfire ravaged town of Cobargo still live in caravans and cobbled together homes more than a year after the Black Summer bushfires.