Aljazeera - 1/05/13, Richard Angwin
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Bushfires are raging in many parts of Australia as the country experiences one of its most intense heatwaves in the last half century.
Some 80 percent of the country is in the grips of the heatwave, believed to have its origins in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Settled weather conditions, aided by significantly above-average water temperatures along the coast have fed exceptionally warm air across the continent.
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