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This picture shows smoke filling the sky as Sydney is enveloped in a thick bank of hazardous bushfire smoke forcing authorities in Australia's largest city to scale back controlled forest burning nearby. Saeed Khan/Getty Images
Residents displaced by bushfires in western Victoria have started to return but many have nothing left to come home to.
More than two dozen homes along with outbuildings and vehicles have been destroyed after bushfires raged in and around the Grampians National Park this week.