Peta Barker

The insurer IAG’s Wild Weather Tracker shows the country experienced 46 storms last year, an average of one every eight days.

The damage caused by extreme weather events has resulted in a tripling of insurance claims.

This brings to mind a poem by the late great Brian Turner:

SKY

If the sky knew half

of what we are doing down here

it would be stricken

inconsolable and we would have

nothing but rain.