SBS Japanese Newsflash Wednesday 8 January

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched an unofficial campaign tour through Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Holidaymakers and locals near Victoria’s Great Ocean Road have been warned it is too late to leave as an out-of-control bushfire burns in the region.

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