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Week 3: MALLACOOTA, VIC ‘PLEASE DON’T FORGET US’

At a time when many Aussie kids are heading back to school after their fun-filled holidays, young Mallacoota student Jessica Tregellas carries the weight of the world on her shoulders.

Cutting a lonely figure among the charred remains of what was once her school community garden and chicken coop, she’s one of the many innocent children who endured the trauma of the new year bushfires.

But while she has seen and been

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