Fiona's Ashes

Fiona Lee sits outside NSW Parliament with a pile of ashes from her family’s burnt out home after fire tore through the tiny rural community of Warrawillah on the state’s mid-north coast on Friday.

As bushfires rage across the country today - in one of the nation’s most catastrophic fire events ever - the NSW parliament is in the process of passing legislation that will remove climate change as a consideration when approving new coal mines and gas-fields.

Fiona and her family drove to Sydney to participate in today’s protest rally to demand action on climate change.

More pics to come.

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