This project was designed at the request of the RMIT Social Innovation Hub to visualise data on social issues to effectively communicate information to target audiences, helping them to rethink the severity of social issues and take secondary action.Bushfires in Australia are a common and frequent phenomenon that have played an important role in shaping the country's landscape for millions of years. The eastern part of the country is particularly vulnerable to fires, and the eucalyptus forests have adapted to benefit from these fires. Nevertheless, these fires can cause significant destruction of homes and property and loss of life for people and animals. Since 1851, bushfires have tragically claimed the lives of around 800 people and billions of animals in Australia. Focusing on these issues, we created an interactive webpage that graphs the status of bushfires in Australia over the 20th and 21st centuries, the amount of land lost to fire, and the cumulative area burned in Australia.The project designed an interactive section on the very last page, where users could leave messages for nature, or even raise money for bushfire rebuilding sites.


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