Afterwards

Now that the Queensland floods have receded from an area as large as France and Germany combined (and Brisbane has begun to send around 200,000 tonnes of resulting rubbish to landfill) water has since covered 25 % of Victoria and will soon reach South Australia.  Only the tail end of the rain reached Tasmania, but even so it was enough to cause considerable damage to northern roads and farms.  Following the long dry these floods have been calamitous personally and nationally.

Yet another cause for reflection on the management of our land of drought and flooding rains this coming Australia Day.