Acute water shortage in Britain results not just from the lack of our usual rain, but from the demands of our huge population. The Australian view of drought is different. Their land is sparsely populated, and it's the driest of inhabited continents.
Is the most recent dramatic cycle of extended drought, horrifying bush fires and ensuing floods part of a natural order, or a series of unnatural catastrophes? Australian film-makers Tristram Miall and Robert Loader explore the Aboriginal attitude to drought, examine modern theories of its causes, and chronicle its impact on the plants and animals, and on the people.
Narrator Hugh Keays-Byrne Film editor MICHAEL BALSON
A GOLDEN DOLPHIN production