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Early last year, the bush storyteller Murray Hartin penned a 14-stanza poem in three hours flat. Rain From Nowhere is about a farmer on the brink of ruin who receives an empathetic letter from his father. A celebration of resilience and hope, it is as moving a piece of Australian verse as has been published in decades. It's also pertinent. The driest continent on earth is in the grip of the worst drought in its recorded history. Beginning in 2002 and spanning, at times, the breadth of the country, the dry spell has pushed farmers to the limits...
...rice grower near the town of Barham in the country's southeast. But the drought's baking breath has dried and cracked his fields. Gordon should have been harvesting last month across a good portion of his 1,600-hectare farm. Alas, there was nothing to harvest. With no rain in sight and no access to the depleted reserves of government-controlled water, Gordon last September didn't bother to plant a crop...
...likely to last, scientific opinion is divided. One school of thought is that there's no evidence global warming is causing this drought or will ever cause anything like a permanent one; there's even a theory that higher temperatures could help boost Australian agricultural production by bringing more rain to some parts of the country. On the other hand, modeling studies by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation suggest temperatures will rise by 1-6°C over the next 60 years, increasing evaporation and water scarcity in future droughts...
...When we were launching it was pouring rain with sideways wind,” Devine said. “But we’ve rowed in ice and snow this spring, so we took those conditions and instead of being defeated by them we said to ourselves we love this kind of weather. We thrive in this kind of weather...
...tail. For our race [the 1V] we launched about 45 minutes before the race and we had no idea what the conditions were going to be. It was a little bit stormy, but it was typical Camden you-never-know-what-to-expect conditions. It ended up starting to rain and pouring by the end of our race. This is something that you have to be prepared for and the thing about racing is that you’re not the only boat out there; everyone deals with it so it really doesn’t matter...