When Dorothea Mackellar wrote of flooding rains more than a century ago, she couldn’t have anticipated anything on the scale of the current deluge in Queensland.
The downpour, which began as a lingering low-pressure trough topped up by rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Dianne, has dumped a phenomenal amount of water on to outback towns and cities, inundating homes, cutting access to communities and causing stock losses in excess of 150,000.
