British breakfast show hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid have lambasted Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in a tense interview with Liberal MP Craig Kelly. Morgan had previously criticised Morrison on Twitter for a “shameless and shameful” political ad about the government’s response to the bushfire crisis. Watch Good Morning Britain hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid blast the Australian government’s bushfire …

Firefighting associations across Australia are calling for a federal royal commission into the deadly bushfire crisis currently gripping Australia. Association secretaries from NSW, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia have called for urgent action which crosses state lines and provides more resources across the board. “There has been a complete failure federally to coordinate activity across various jurisdictions,” Stewart Little, …

When it comes to political clumsiness, the Prime Minister’s Hawaiian holiday was hard to top. But the Liberal Party advertisement released late yesterday, as dozens of communities faced horror bushfire conditions, came close. The ad shows Scott Morrison in the field, taking charge (angry locals refusing to shake his hand are nowhere to be seen). Firefighters battle the flames with abundant support from Defence …

World No.1 tennis player Ashleigh Barty has become the latest Australian sports star to join fundraising efforts for bushfire victims, pledging to donate all of her Brisbane International prize money. After donating more than $30,000 late last year to the RSPCA to help wildlife affected by the national disaster, Barty said she wanted to dig deep again for families who …

NSW Emergency Services Minister David Elliott, who went on a European holiday during the ongoing bushfire crisis, has labelled his absence “inexcusable”. Mr Elliott had been away in Europe as the bushfires ravaged much of the country and his state of New South Wales. On Friday night, he tagged himself in a social media post as being at the NSW …

Senior NSW Liberal Andrew Constance says the Prime Minister got “the welcome he probably deserved” when he was yesterday driven out of a bushfire ravaged town. Pictures from Scott Morrison’s awkward visit to Cobargo, on the NSW South Coast, were beamed around the world and went viral on social media. People in the town, where a father and son died in …

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been confronted by angry protesters in the bushfire-hit town of Cobargo in New South Wales. Two people died near the Bega Valley town when it was hit by a raging bushfire early on New Year’s Eve. Visiting the town on Thursday to meet emergency services workers and offer his support to bushfire victims, the PM found …

A volunteer firefighter has died and two others have been injured while working on a fire burning near Albury, the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) has confirmed. The RFS said the three firefighters were the same truck working on a blaze near Jingellic, near the Victorian border, when it rolled over after being hit by extreme winds. One firefighter was …

It was a family business on the brink of collapse, but by harnessing the power of social media, Bridestowe Lavender Estate has become a global tourist destination. Robert Ravens could see the potential as a tourist site in 2007 and purchased the property as a retirement project. “We had no customers and no technology. We didn’t know anything about anything,” …

A well-known Queensland snake catcher has been released from hospital after being bitten by an eastern brown snake at a house south of Brisbane. Tony Harrison was live-streaming on Facebook on Saturday when he was bitten by a brown snake which was hiding under an air conditioning unit outside the home in Pimpama. The video shows the snake striking at …