Australia – lurching from fires to floods

“One-in-a-thousand-year” floods are engulfing parts of Australia’s southeast coast. More than 40,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and another 300,000 warned to prepare to flee. The intense rain storms, which have so far killed nine people with more feared dead, are expected to hit Sydney in the early hours of Wednesday.  Australia appears to lurch from one climate disaster to the next with recent catastrophic wildfires being unprecedented in their scale