Author: Jeff Bennett, ANU

The 2011 floods in Australia have been remarkable for their intensity and geographic spread. Records for depth, frequency and extent have been broken, all due to a La Niña event only exceeded in recorded history by one in 1917–18.

The impact on agriculture has been similarly record-breaking. From tropical north Queensland to western Victoria and across the Murray Darling Basin in the east and in the Gascoyne region around Carnarvon in the west, a wide variety of farm enterprises have been affected. Read more…