Australian Weather

Australia is a country with no rules when it comes to weather events.

This collection of poems shows the back-breaking hard work and lack of sleep both men and women undertake to bring order to towns and countryside after a bad weather event, such as fire, flood or drought.

Country property owners work hard to make a living during normal times, then watch it all disappear during a fire, flood or drought. Despair is ignored while saving lives but the slow recovery that follows for the next yea...