Drought reprieve as rain fills dams and turns dusty paddocks green, but more falls needed
The green vista that now stretches to the horizon is in stark contrast to the dust wall that shrouded paddocks not too long ago on this western NSW sheep station. Australia Weather News
Drought reprieve as rain fills dams and turns dusty paddocks green, but more falls needed
The green vista that now stretches to the horizon is in stark contrast to the dust wall that shrouded paddocks not too long ago on this western NSW sheep station. 
Five things I learnt covering Australia's drought crisis this week
This week I took a 900km trip through regional Australia to see for myself how bad the drought was. These are the five things I have learnt, writes Michael Rowland. 
'Flash droughts' strike fast and hard, and researchers are still racing to identify them before they happen
If in November 2017 your farm was doing fine but just two months later in January you were in drought, what happened? 
Murray-Darling Basin in 'most severe' two-to-three year drought conditions in 120 years of records, BOM says
Every drought is different, but the Bureau of Meteorology says when it comes to two-to-three year droughts the Murray-Darling Basin is now suffering its worst. 
Gippsland farmers are struggling through a green drought and say outsiders 'don't understand'
The paddocks of Gippsland look green, but farmers are still in drought and have lost as much as 70 per cent of their regular income.