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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25026912-2702,00.html
on the koala pics: the newspapers here have been FULL of fire news. The Age newspaper which is Melbourne's broadsheet paper was completely packed with bushfire news (people dead, people who've lost houses, the aussie cricket team visiting survivors, how people escaped etc etc) up to about page 12. it's been massively over-covered, and some commentators have even described it as "disaster porn" (not unjustified). so it's not as if slipping in a couple of picks of "CFA heroes" helping out the native wildlife was that OTT. in context it's a much-needed relief from what is a serious and heavily covered tragedy.
the foreign media just love koalas, so these pics get syndicated more than pics of dead aussies.