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Two friends reunited at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Shelter.

CFA volunteer David Tree - bless you.

Amid the burgeoning bushfire death toll, which is currently nearing 200, we find a little ray of hope in the midst of such terrible suffering.

We find it in the form of a big strong man, a firefighter, down on his knees in the blackened remains of the forest to offer a desperately-needed drink of water to a distressed koala.

"Hero" is a much-abused term, but our volunteer firefighters are the genuine article.

I hope Sam will be back in the forest munching contentedly on eucalyptus leaves as soon as possible.

Never a truer word spoken!

It's disconcerting when you hear someone else expressing your personal ideology so clearly.

Here is your opportunity to send Dubya a message now that he has left the White House.

Vent away.

I respect world leaders who speak coherently, aren't arrogant enough to believe they have a direct line to God and don't plan to destroy other nations and millions of innocent civilians for bogus reasons. Therefore I am incredibly relieved that Bush is gone. As a non-American, I am also excited to see what Obama can achieve. The US presidency goes well beyond the leadership of one nation.

And it's all happening in my home state!