Australia: the land of droughts and flooding rains.

Dorothea Mackellar was clearly not just a poet – but a handy weather watcher, without the shrill note of panic in her pen.

She didn’t write about crisis or emergency. She wrote about the bleeding obvious – the normal weather cycles in this great land of ours.

It would seem her observation skills are arguably better, than someone who lately poses as an expert in these matters: Tim Flannery.