Hazelwood by Tom Doig - ISBN: 9780143793342
Paperback
Australia’s worst mine fire: tragedy, toxic smoke, and community fightback.

Hazelwood

  • Paperback

    304 pages

  • Release Date

    1 July 2020

Summary

A gripping and immediate account of one of the worst disasters in Australian history.

Early in the afternoon of 9 February 2014, during the worst drought and heatwave south-eastern Australia had experienced in over a century, two separate bushfires raged towards the massive Hazelwood open-pit brown-coal mine, near Morwell in the Latrobe Valley. The fires overwhelmed local fire-fighting efforts and sent a skyful of embers sailing onto millions of square metres of exposed, highly flamma…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143793342
ISBN-10:0143793349
Author:Tom Doig
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Viking Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:1 July 2020
Weight:404g
Dimensions:232mm x 153mm x 23mm
About The Author

Tom Doig

Tom Doig has written for Guardian Australia, The Big Issue, Crikey, New Matilda and Voiceworks. Tom’s second book, The Coal Face, was Joint-Winner of the 2015 Oral History Victoria Education Innovation Award. His first book, Moron to Moron, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2013. Hazelwood was longlisted for the 2020 Walkley Award for Books.

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