Dr Rebecca Jones examines how European settlers and colonisers struggled to cope with Australia's extreme weather events.

Dr Rebecca Jones is a National Library Fellow supported by Deidre McCann and Kevin McCann AM, and the Macquarie Group Foundation.

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Carl Dugdale, A Phenomenal Dust-storm at Narrandera, New South Wales (detail), between 1900 and 1915, nla.cat-vn270297