Australia news live: Australia sends firefighters to France as blazes rage; leaders gather for Garma festival

The Guardian reports that Australia is sending firefighting support to France to assist with the ongoing blazes. The deployment will include a Chinook helicopter with an eleven-thousand-three-hundred-litre water tank, a support aircraft, and twenty-four skilled crew members from the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

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