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A Time sequence record of the Ash Wednesday fires using news reports as broadcast during the emergency

Australia, 1983
tv-show

A Channel 10 Production on Wednesday 16th 1983 of the Ash Wednesday Bushfires opening with David Johnston on location in the Dandenong Ranges. The report also..

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