Australian Drought Research Paper

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Australia is a country that experiences a lot of 'natural disasters'. This includes floods, bushfires, severe storms, earthquakes, landslides and much more. These disasters cause a lot of hardship for people and their community, and can ultimately result in death, which has been told in a lot of ‘Australian folklore’. Australia is also one of the driest of all populated continents in the world, with its climates varying all the time. Large parts of Australia may experience a drought at any given moment. In the last 100 years or so, Australia has actually experienced two significant '100-year droughts'. In the early 1980s and 1990s, Australia saw lots of destructive droughts.

In Australia, there are a lot of bushfires. Bushfires are not the

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