Around the world, communities are battling more extreme weather events. That includes residents in the path of Cyclone Narelle, which is threatening to form again over Western Australia.
But another concerning trend is that natural disasters are increasingly arriving in clusters, not in isolation.
Fires, storms, floods and heatwaves are are no longer neatly separated by season or geography. They are more often occurring together or are affecting different parts of the country at the same time.
