If the accepted wisdom about adversity revealing a person’s true colours is correct, Susan Duncan’s bushfire plan delivers the full rainbow.
The journalist and author is recalling the summer of 2019, when fires encircled the home she shares with her husband, Bob Story, on a farm in the hills behind the NSW mid-north coast. “We’d been in drought for three years so there was no water in the dam,” she recalls. “There was a horseshoe of fire surrounding us and it just kept coming closer. I asked Bob when we were going to leave and he said ‘not today’. I wasn’t about to…
