Queensland is notorious for its bushfires with the fire season typically being between August and January. In the 2002 to 2003 fire season, 2800 bushfires scorched 8 million hectares. At the end of December 2013, hundreds of campers and visitors lapping up the sun on North Stradbroke Island had to be evacuated due to bushfires. Queensland […]

If you live or have a property away from city areas, then you may need to carefully plan out your sources of water. Such might include rivers and dams, bore water or more obviously rainwater. Properties located in semi-rural regions generally have access to a reticulated water supply. Nonetheless, water tanks are clearly something that can help create sustainable water supply even in urban […]

Australia is a semi-arid country with hot, dry summers. As such, rural areas are particularly prone to bushfires — rural New South Wales is no exception. Homeowners, particularly those living in rural areas, need to consider this when planning and building their homes. In rural bushfire areas, an adequate water retention system for firefighting purposes […]

Victoria has a sub-Mediterranean climate, and like the rest of Australia, experiences hot dry summers where bushfires are common and often devastating. Victoria is considered one of the highest bushfire risk areas in the world; the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, which claimed 173 lives, and destroyed more than 2000 homes and 430,000 hectares of land, […]