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Victorian Bushfires Collection
February 7, 2010 marks the first anniversary of Black Saturday, the greatest natural disaster in Australia's recorded history.
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Garden Gnome - Marysville, 07 Feb 2009 (Bushfire Damaged)
Love it or hate it, the garden gnome is a familiar part of the suburban Australian garden.
This statue from Marysville has been damaged by the Black Saturday fire that destroyed the owner’s house and all its contents, devastated the town and claimed 34 lives.
It is embedded with ash and debris, but remains complete. It is a symbol of the random destructiveness of bushfires, but also of the conflict between our love of the bush and our desire to tame it.
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