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Record rainfall followed by a warmer winter has supercharged the growth of vegetation especially around NSW, VIC, and QLD.
Transcript
00:00 [Music playing]
00:28 We're in what's called a bit of a snap drought at the moment.
00:31 We haven't had rain for some time.
00:33 We're in for another potentially very dangerous fire season.
00:36 [Music playing]
00:52 We're seeing frost now going across the landscape.
00:54 It's been killing all that grass, making it all ready to burn.
00:58 [Music playing]
01:05 We've got to do this work because if we don't,
01:08 then you know, potentially we'll pay the price for it in the summer.
01:11 [Music playing]
01:15 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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