Guardian: New year’s disaster: full horror of Australia’s bushfires begins to emerge – in pictures
Australia’s south-east devastated by fires that have left nine people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed since Christmas
Wed 1 Jan 2020 07.44 GMT
Firefighters struggle against the strong wind in an effort to secure houses from bushfires near the town of Nowra, New South Wales, Australia. Photograph: Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images