Snapshot of the nation's bushfire emergency:
* Almost 200 fires burning across the country
* Seven people have been killed
* More than 900 homes lost in this year's bushfire season: NSW - 789, Queensland - 40, South Australia - 72, Western Australia - one
* Thousands of outbuildings destroyed or damaged, stock and crops destroyed
* 2,000 koalas feared killed
New South Wales
* 110 fires, of which almost 60 are uncontained
* 2 volunteer firefighters, Geoff Keaton and Andrew O'Dwyer, killed as well as four others on the Mid-North Coast - Vivian Chaplain, 69, and George Nole, Julie Fletcher, 63, and an unnamed 58-year-old man
NSW Police watch as the Green Wattle Creek Fire threatens homes in Yandeera in the south west of Sydney.
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* 100 buildings destroyed over weekend alone
* Smoke continues to affect Sydney
* Fires:
- Huge Gospers Mountain blaze northwest of Sydney, areas hardest hit include Lithgow and along the Bells Line of Road in the upper Blue Mountains
- Green Wattle Creek fire southwest of the city, devastating Wollondilly Shire villages of Buxton and Bargo, and wiping out small town of Balmoral
- Currowan blaze on the South Coast, north of Batemans Bay, has hit communities near Nerriga
Victoria
* Two blazes still burning uncontrolled in Tambo Crossing in East Gippsland and Hotspur, Digby, in the Western District
* Bushfires in East Gippsland burning since Thursday
Fire crews attack flames from a fire burning at Mount Mercer.
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* Cooler conditions have given firefighters a reprieve
* Smoke from the fires and from NSW expected to make air quality hazardous
South Australia
* Huge fire burning in Adelaide Hills
* One killed (Ron Selth, 69), three more in hospital with burns
* 25,000 hectares burnt within a 127km perimeter
* 72 homes confirmed lost along with 404 other buildings and 227 vehicles over the weekend
* Significant losses to crops, including vineyards, and hundreds of sheep killed
* Most concern centred on difficult terrain around the Kangaroo Creek Reservoir at Castambul
QUEENSLAND
* About 60 fires burning within containment lines across the state
* Severe fire conditions in the Central Highlands and Coalfields and Upper Flinders region in central Queensland
* Cooler conditions, some rain expected around Christmas Eve
* Smoke haze from NSW fires
Western Australia
* Lives and homes were threatened by bushfires in Perth's Hills region around Roleystone in the city's southeast and a massive blaze at Yanchep, north of Perth, last week before being downgraded
* Firefighters battled heatwave conditions for much of the six-day fire, saving thousands of properties
* One house and a Yanchep petrol station were destroyed; about 13,000 hectares were burnt
Tasmania
* Two bushfires north of Launceston were brought under control at the end of November
Northern Territory
* NT last saw major fires in September when there were nine active fire grounds.
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