La Niña has begun to weaken after helping to make 2022 the ninth-wettest year on record, but the climate driver isn't disappearing quietly.
Australians in the past week have lost access to food and water and access to their towns, and some have even lost their animals and homes.
Heavy rain over some parts of the country has fallen on already saturated catchments during Australia's third La Niña in a row, and after a year of national rainfall that was 25 per cent above the 1961-1990 annual average.
