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Keith Edwards, of Kinglake Place in The Meadows, Nottingham, was charged following demonstrations on 3 August.

Keith Edwards, of Kinglake Place, The Meadows, Nottingham, has been charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence.

His mother wrote short stories for women’s magazines and taught him to read, kicking off a literary journey that led him to devour novels by Evelyn Waugh and Charles Dickens, as well as the 19th-century travel writing of Alexander William Kinglake.

KINGLAKE, Australia — Low cloud hugs the hillside as the road curves, revealing a blue-hued forest punctuated with dead silvery-black branches — symbols of a scarred but resilient landscape and a community forever changed.

As Australia confronts renewed tragedy in a wildfire emergency of unprecedented scale, the people who rebuilt their lives in Kinglake after losing everything fear a repeat.