The Canberra bushfires of 2003 were extensively photographed by professional photographers and by those experiencing the disaster as it unfolded.
The ACT Heritage Library holds many collections and publications about the fires. Other material can be found at memory institutions in the ACT and NSW. Links are made to the locations of all items.
2003-2006
On the 24 January 2003, the ACT Government announced the establishment of a Bushfire Recovery Taskforce to coordinate the government, community and business efforts to assist the victims of the disaster and the longer-term recovery of the ACT.
2003
Includes a compact of digital and digitised images the areas affected by the 2003 Bushfire in Weston Creek, the Orroral Valley, Tidbinbilla, Duffy, Mount Stromlo, Chapman, Cooleman Farm, Coppins Crossing, Cotter River, Molonglo River before and after the January 18 2003 firestorm. Trish and her husband Helmut live on Eucumbembe Drive, Duffy, the first street to be devastated by the fires.
30 Aug 1965 - 23 Jan 2003
Photographs of life at Mt Stromlo. Astrophysicist Barry Newell was Administrator of Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories of the Australian National University. The family lived first at house no. 3, which subsequently survived the 2003 bushfire, then from about 1984 to 1991 at house no. 9. This house was removed by the ANU in the late 1990s.
23 January 2003-30 April 2003
On 23 January 2003 members of Mt Stromlo staff were taken through the ruins of Mt Stromlo. Most of these photographs were taken by Denise and Ralph on 23 January; the last five were taken on a later visit, after the external debris had been removed and the site made secure.
01 December 2002-20 January 2003
Bibangara Homestead is an agistment services property located at 118 Cotter Road, Strolo. Cnaberra resident Roz Hodsdon held horses at Bibaringa for 9 years. The collection is mostly photographs post the 2003 Canberra Bushfires.
12 January 2003
Graham and Helen Fleming, owners of Keira Bulbs in Pialligo took photographs from Pialligo looking west to the Brindabella Ranges on Sunday 12 January 2003. The photographs show the smoke and haze from the fires visible in Canberra over a week before the fires entered Canberra suburbs.
January 2004
In January 2004, Sydney heritage photographer David Haworth drove the loop from Mt Stromlo, the Cotter Road around to Tidbinbilla documenting the post 2003 bushfire regrowth.
Collection currently unavailable.
2003
7 digital photographs by Christine Thomas and Simon Mockler
2003
833 digital photographs by Loui Seselja, Damian McDonald and Greg Power
11-12 January 2003
3 photographs by David Tunbridge
2003
5 galleries of photographs by Jason Phillips, Stephen Byron, Kim Rawlings, Mark Bacon and Ray Brown of the Mount Stromlo Observatory after the bushfires of 18 January 2003.
2003
Several photographs of the aftermath of the bushfires at Mount Stromlo
December 3003
396 photographs by "Spelio" including several of post-fire forest regeneration in December 2003.
18 January 2006
21 photographs by Pascal Vuylsteker
18 January 2003
Photographs by John Lafferty
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