A massive amount of Victoria (my state) is on fire now too; The Guardian has a map (which is where this pic was taken from clearly) showing how big the areas burnt is; doesn't have Victoria listed on it yet, so the data is a bit old

[www.theguardian.com]

It's properly catastrophic

* 16 fires are burning at emergency level across Australia, 8 in Victoria and 8 in NSW, with the entire East Gippsland region under an emergency alert.
* One firefighter has died overnight, and others injured, in a “freakish weather event” near Albury, described as a “fire tornado” that overturned a ten-tonne truck on flat, stable ground.
* In Victoria, four people are missing, and premier Daniel Andrews said authorities “have real fears for their safety”.
* 4,000 residents have been evacuated from the town of Mallacoota and are sheltering on the foreshore, as the firefront hit properties this morning. Photos taken from 9am showed the sky pitch black.
* Victoria’s emergency services commissioner, Andrew Crisp, confirmed “significant property losses across all of East Gippsland”.
* 5,700 homes are without power in East Gippsland, and more than 200,000 hectares have been burned.
* 200 new fires started on Monday, and 60 new fires started from midnight until now. These conditions were worse than predicted, and the bureau of meteorology will be updating its forecast to be worse than originally thought.
* In NSW, residents of Cobargo were evacuated as the firefront reached the town and impacted homes.
* People in bushfire prone areas between Batemans Bay and Bega, and also the south coast town of Tathra, have also been told to evacuate.