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Natural disasters in AustraliaAustralia experiences a range of 'natural disasters'including bushfires, floods, severe storms, earthquakes and landslides. Theseevents cause great financial hardship for individuals and communities, and canresult in loss of life, which has become part of Australianfolklore. However, these events are also considered both part ofthe natural cycle of weather patterns in Australia as well as being affected byhuman factors such as overstocking, vegetation loss, dams, groundwater andirrigation schemes. These patterns are recognised by terms such as a 100-yeardrought - a drought of severity that is only seen once in a hundred Read moreyears. Firecan often follow drought, and drought can be followed by flood. Severe firesfollowed by drought can also contribute to soil erosion. The experience of natural disaster has come to be seen aspart of the Australian national character as described in the poem “My Country”by Dorothea McKellar (1904). I love a sunburnt country, a land ofsweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!
Bushfires, floods, severe storms
Earthquakes, landslides, dust stroms
Tsunami, floods, snow storms
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Money for all the people
Great financial hardship and can result in loss of life
A funny party for people
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100 years of drought
A drought of severity that is only seen once in a hundred years
A severe drought for 100 people
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Severe fires followed by drought
Flows of water and air, particularly in dry and land without vegetation
Ice
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Country Land
My Land in a Disaster
My Country
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