‘We leave no-one behind’: A GP’s story of the Black Summer bushfires and the years of recovery that followed

Dr Sara-Renwick Lau says it was only last year that referrals for psychological treatment reduced.
Dr Sara Renwick-Lau.

It was 30 December 2019, and GP Dr Sara Renwick-Lau was preparing for her first summer holiday in years. 

Tourists had been streaming into the coastal Victorian town of Mallacoota, just south of the NSW border, taking her practice’s patient population from 1000 to almost 8000.Â