Make no mistake: these floods are climate change playing out in real time, page-8

Activists must have been scratching the heads and stroking their chins in 1867. As flood waters started to rise the activists were trying to figure out who or what to blame.

Does Mr Eltham's statement signal the start of the Australian Comedy Festival?

In 1870 a station was opened between Windsor and Richmond called Racecourse, but this was renamed Clarendon in 1876. In June 1867, the Hawkesbury River flooded, and reached an all-time peak of 63 feet above the mean river level at Windsor.
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