Loading ...Big place, Queensland. With big cattle stations. The biggest is almost 6,000 sq miles, about four and half times the size of the largest ranch in the US of A. And flat. Big, and flat. The Biggest and Flattest Ever, as your boss would say. So when it floods, which it has every now and then for the last 200 years at least, we lose some cattle. Nothing to do with climate change. As the poet said in 1908:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
With a national herd of about 30m, and not losing any due to drought for the next three years, we won’t notice 150,000 here or there. Sad for the cattle though.