Parts of Australia are suffering another devastating drought, but you wouldn’t know it in the cities

‘No one was prepared for this. Now, 18 months after farmers began trucking water and hand-feeding their animals, stockpiled feed is running out.’ Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

We got some rain in rural Victoria over the weekend, and that’s headline-worthy news.

There’s been a record-breaking drought that’s been afflicting the states of Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and parts of New South Wales for over a year, but depending where you live – and how you get your news – you may not know much about it.