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Feb 2020
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'It just feels different': Mike Bowers a...

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As bushfires and smoke continue to plague our summer, Katharine Murphy speaks to Mike Bowers and Brett Mason, chief political correspondent at SBS, about what it’s been like on fire grounds this season and how the political ramifications are shaping up • Terror on all sides: inside a firestorm tearing through the Australian bush 
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