What a difference a year makes: Mallacoota enjoys beers in sun as holidaymakers flood the coastal tan - exactly a year after terrified families were forced to flee their homes and sleep on the beach to escape Black Summer bushfires
For Mallacoota residents, New Year s Eve last year was an unforgettable day, the sky turned an apocalyptic red
Thousands were forced to flee to the water as flames began to surround the town in Victoria s East Gippsland
Some families had already started fleeing in aluminium powered boats by midday as crews battled the blaze
Horsham farmer offers land up to make dangerous blackspot intersection safer
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Farmer and CFA volunteer Graeme Maher has attended three serious collisions at this same intersection.
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A recent crash at a notorious blackspot intersection has prompted a Victorian farmer to donate his land to help prevent further fatalities at the site, near Horsham.
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Murtoa-Glenorchy Road, a major thoroughfare for trucks, is notorious locally for blind spots at its intersection with Horsham-Lubeck Road
A farmer, whose property borders the intersection, wants to donate a $4,500 portion of his land to help make it safer