Ellis. Great. Tim Flannery. Australian of the year. I loved his books "The Future Eaters" and "The Eternal Frontier". Anyone here not read them, shame on you.

Re the drought. My brother and nephew are dairy farming in northern Vic, the Murray/Darling basin. My bro is over here on hol at the moment. Says if it doesn't rain really heavily in the next two months everything will go belly up. Mind you Oz has had spectacular droughts for thousands of years.