Wildfire-Weary Australians Eye Christmas Blighted by Blazes
- Close to 200 homes destroyed at weekend, fatalities rise to 9
- Morrison defends climate-change policies after axing holiday
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Australia’s devastating wildfires, which at the weekend destroyed close to 200 homes and claimed another life, show no sign of abating and are poised to blight Christmas celebrations.
Around 200 blazes were burning across the world’s driest inhabited continent on Monday. New South Wales, the most populous state, remains at the forefront of the disaster with almost 800 houses lost since the fire season began unusually early in the midst of winter. The crisis has spread to South Australia state, where an estimated 86 homes were destroyed at the weekend.