All of Victoria's bushfires have finally been contained, with the Wilsons Promontory fire brought under control on Saturday morning.
The fire in Wilsons Promontory national park was the last one still alight five weeks on from Black Saturday, 7 February, but rain and cooler weather helped firefighters contain it.
Altogether, Victoria's bushfires took 210 lives, destroyed more than 2000 homes and burnt 421,000 hectares.
Survivors whose homes were lost or badly damaged on Black Saturday are to be given $A50,000 to help them rebuild and buy new belongings.
The money, to be drawn from the Bushfire Recovery Appeal Fund, will go to both the insured and uninsured.
Fund chairman John Landy says the payments are possible because of the generosity of those who donated. A second round of payments will be announced in the next two weeks.
More than $A180 million from the appeal fund has been allocated since the disaster, with an initial $A50 million being committed to the emergency effort in the days immediately after 7 February.
New Zealand firefighters remain
New Zealand firefighters will be the last overseas contingent in Victoria, after others from Canada and the United States leave on Sunday.
They will remain until at least 24 March, despite the end of the bushfire threat.
The New Zealand contingent's information officer, Malcolm Smith, says there's still plenty of work to do to prepare Wilsons Promontory park for rehabilitation.
But he says the rain has brought huge smiles to the faces of fire crews.
Big turnout for concerts
Some of the biggest names in Australian music took to the stage on Saturday to raise money for victims of Victoria's bushfires and Queensland's floods.
More than 120,000 people are estimated to have turned out for the "Sound Relief" concerts, held simultaneously in Sydney and Melbourne. The shows were expected to raise more than $A5million.
Half the profits will go to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal and the other half will go to the premier's Disaster Relief Fund Appeal in Queensland for victims of the floods.
Australia's Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, performed with his former band Midnight Oil.
New Zealanders Tim and Neil Finn gave a surprise appearance as Crowded House re-formed for the night.
Appearing on stage in Melbourne and beamed into Sydney, Kylie Minogue led the crowds in both cities in a version of "I Still Call Australia Home" that brought some to tears.
In their first broadcast address to Australia, Prince William and Prince Harry sent their thoughts and prayers to those affected by the disasters.
