When Michelle Ready first moved to the cane farm she owns with her husband in Queensland nine years ago, it sounded like a jungle at night. “It was lush and green and wet,” she says.
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| Unusually hot and dry conditions in Queensland have fuelled ‘frightening’ fires that are forcing a rethink of what the region can expect in the future. |
A week after a “frightening” fire ripped across their property in Finch Hatton, a small township in the subtropical region of Mackay, better known for its humid, rain-drenched summers, it’s obvious that things have changed.
“It has been unbelievably dry here … the last few years we’re just not getting the rain and then, when we do, it’s often associated with a cyclone.”
Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox - “‘Like opening a fan oven': Australia's rainforest threatened by bushfires.”
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