Stephanie Gardiner

September 29, 2026 — 11:30am

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Under furious orange skies and plumes of bushfire smoke, locals and tourists lined up at a payphone to talk to family and friends or check in on neighbours.

Some used the public phone in Narooma to tell loved ones they were safe, while others revealed they had lost everything in the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires that razed much of the NSW far south coast.

Historian Naomi Parry Duncan was holidaying in Narooma on New Year’s Day in 2020, among those who had to shelter at an evacuation…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU