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Australia has been a dry continent for countless millenia.
The native animals stand testiment to this.
The kangaroo if pregnant when a drought starts, can keep the pregnancy on hold for quite a time, until better times come.
The Koala, it can get by without drinking water for quite a while, getting it's sustanence from the leaves it eats.
Drought is the norm.
At the moment we are worried about water, in a decade or so it will be food.
The majority of our food comes from farms situated close to the coast where rain is fairly plentiful and the soils are rich. These same farms are now being cut up into lots and sold off to house our expanding population.
Where do we get our food if there are no farms to produce it?
From farms further inland? At the moment they are only getting a decent crop every 4 or so years?
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