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Ash Wednesday bushfires
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983, which was Ash Wednesday in the Christian calendar.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Biloela
Biloela is a rural town and locality in Shire of Banana, Central Queensland, Australia.
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Bourke, New South Wales
Bourke is a town in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia.
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Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.
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Bureau of Meteorology
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.
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Central Queensland
Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland (a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn.
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Charters Towers
Charters Towers is a town in northern Queensland, Australia.
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Climate change
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
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Climate change in Australia
Climate change has been a major issue in Australia since the beginning of the 21st century.
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Condamine River
The Condamine River, part of the Balonne catchment that is part of the Murray-Darling Basin, drains the northern portion of the Darling Downs, an area of sub-coastal southern Queensland, Australia.
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Condensation
Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from gas phase into liquid phase, and is the reverse of vapourisation.
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Darling Downs
The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia.
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Darling River
The Darling River is the third longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth, New South Wales.
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Decile
In descriptive statistics, a decile is any of the nine values that divide the sorted data into ten equal parts, so that each part represents 1/10 of the sample or population.
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia)
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) was an Australian government department that existed between 1998 and 2013, when it was renamed as the Department of Agriculture.
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Deserts of Australia
Named deserts of Australia cover, or 18% of the Australian mainland.
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Dirranbandi, Queensland
Dirranbandi is a town and locality in South West Queensland, Australia, located in the Shire of Balonne.
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Drinking water
Drinking water, also known as potable water, is water that is safe to drink or to use for food preparation.
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Drought
A drought is a period of below-average precipitation in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply, whether atmospheric, surface water or ground water.
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El Niño
El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (commonly called ENSO) and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific (between approximately the International Date Line and 120°W), including off the Pacific coast of South America.
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Evaporation
Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gaseous phase before reaching its boiling point.
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Extratropical cyclone
Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth.
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Extreme weather
Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, unpredictable, severe or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past.
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Federation Drought
In Australia, the Federation Drought is the name given to a prolonged period of drought that occurred around the time of Federation in 1901.
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Gippsland
Gippsland is an economic rural region of Victoria, Australia, located in the south-eastern part of that state.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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Goondiwindi
Goondiwindi is a town and a locality in the Goondiwindi Region, Queensland, Australia.. At the, the town had an urban population of approximately 5,500. The name Goondiwindi derives from an Aboriginal word with goondi indicating droppings or dung and windi indicating duck, probably connected with the roosting place on a large rock in the Macintyre River. The name was believed to be first used for a pastoral run in the area.
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Gwydir River
Gwydir River (locally gwɑe̯də), a major inland perennial river of the Barwon catchment within the Murray-Darling basin, is located in the Northern Tablelands, North West Slopes, and Orana districts of New South Wales, Australia.
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La Niña
La Niña is a coupled ocean-atmosphere phenomenon that is the counterpart of El Niño as part of the broader El Niño–Southern Oscillation climate pattern.
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Lake George (New South Wales)
Lake George (or Weereewa in the indigenous language) is an endorheic lake in south-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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List of dams and reservoirs in Australia
Dams and reservoirs in Australia is a link page for any dam or reservoir in Australia.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Macquarie River
Macquarie River a watercourse that is part of the Macquarie–Barwon catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales, Australia.
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Menindee, New South Wales
Menindee, frequently but erroneously spelled "Menindie", is a small town in the far west of New South Wales, Australia, in Central Darling Shire, on the banks of the Darling River, with a sign-posted population of 980 and a population of 551.
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Military history of Australia during World War II
Australia entered World War II on 3 September 1939, following the government's acceptance of the United Kingdom's declaration of war on Nazi Germany.
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Monsoon trough
The monsoon trough is a portion of the Intertropical Convergence Zone,Bin Wang.
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Moree, New South Wales
Moree is a large town in Moree Plains Shire in northern New South Wales, Australia.
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Murray–Darling basin
The Murray–Darling basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia.
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Narrabri
Narrabri is a town and seat of Narrabri Shire local government area in the North West Slopes, New South Wales, Australia on the Namoi River, northwest of Sydney.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Northern Tablelands
The Northern Tablelands, also known as the New England Tableland, is a plateau and a region of the Great Dividing Range in northern New South Wales, Australia.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
The Parliaments of the Australian states and territories are legislative bodies within the federal framework of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Pastoral lease
A pastoral lease is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where Crown land is leased by government generally for the purpose of grazing on rangelands.
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Peak water
Peak water is a concept that underlines the growing constraints on the availability, quality, and use of freshwater resources.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Send 'er down, Hughie!
Send 'er down, Hughie!, sometimes Send her down, Hughie! or Send it down, Hughie!, is an idiomatic Australian phrase uttered in response to the onset of rain.
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Sheep
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
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South Australia
South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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Stanthorpe, Queensland
Stanthorpe is a town situated in south east Queensland, Australia.
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Swamp
A swamp is a wetland that is forested.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.
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Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.
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The Courier-Mail
The Courier-Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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Walgett, New South Wales
Walgett is a town in northern New South Wales, Australia, and the seat of Walgett Shire.
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Warwick, Queensland
Warwick is a town and locality in southeast Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane.
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Water restrictions in Australia
Water restrictions have been enacted in many cities and regions in Australia, which is the Earth's driest inhabited continent, in response to chronic water shortages resulting from the widespread drought.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.
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1911–16 Australian drought
The 1911–1916 Australian drought consisted of a series of droughts that affected various regions of Australia between the years of 1911 and 1916.
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1946–47 Ashes series
The 1946–47 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test matches, each of six days with five hours play each day and eight ball overs.
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1967 Tasmanian fires
The 1967 Tasmanian fires were an Australian natural disaster which occurred on 7 February 1967, an event which came to be known as the Black Tuesday bushfires.
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1979–83 Eastern Australian drought
Between 1979 and 1983 almost all of eastern Australia was affected by a major drought.
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2010–11 Queensland floods
A series of floods hit Queensland, Australia, beginning in November 2010.
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21st century
The 21st century is the current century of the Anno Domini era or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drought_in_Australia
