Three biggest cities are on the East Coast: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Sydney and Melbourne are much bigger than the others, 4-5 million each. No real bush fire issues in Melbourne (Victoria) yet. We had bad fires around 10 years ago and a couple of hundred people died. I'm not sure if anyone died in these fires up the coast yet and the coverage seems disproportionate to me, although that's probably because I'm not immediately affected. It's weird how the media decides what to cover, if you have fires in the US, we hear all about it, seems like it doesn't work the other way around. There were terrible fires in Portugal maybe last year or the year before and they barely registered on the Australian news.