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After the inferno
As the smoke begins to clear, we’re seeing for the first time the unimaginable scale of Australia’s worst bushfire season.
Photography by Brendan Esposito with words by Nick Sas
In the New South Wales Southern Highlands, about 100km south-west of Sydney, no matter what the season, there has always been one constant: green.
But not anymore.
The ABC was this week given access to an RFS helicopter for a flyover of the region, which has been decimated by the massive Green Wattle Creek and Morton fires.
Homes have been lost…