Most areas of Australia have permanent drought conditions.
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The most drought-prone areas are the areas inland from the coast. Drought hits all areas of Australia (including the coast) but drought is more prevalent in inland Queensland, NSW, Victoria, Northern Territory and throughout South Australia and Western Australia. Even Tasmania can be subject to drought.
The Millennium drought (aka "The 2000s") is considered by most to be the worst drought in Australia since its settlement. It began in 1995 and continued until late 2009. Upon the official ending of the drought, Australia's government had spent $4.5 billion in assistance for its citizens.
the main states with drought are punjab, bihar, maharashtra, rajasthan,orrisa. These are the most common places with drought.
Different regions of Australia experience drought at different times. The drought currently being experienced by the southern regions is the worst on record, and has been going on for 12 years. In Queensland, some areas were drought-declared in August 2002, and are still in drought (October 2008), whereas other regions have had the drought declaration lifted, following good rainfalls earlier in 2008. A similar situation exists in Western Australia, where good farmland has been drought-declared for a number of years, but other areas have received sufficient rain to be taken off the list.
Australia has had many droughts, and in some parts of the country these droughts are continuing even today. There is always a region or shire in Australia which is drought-declared at any given time. It is the geography of the continent which makes Australia so prone to droughts. Some of Australia's major historical droughts include: * The "Federation drought" 1895-1902 * The drought of 1914-15 * The World War II droughts between 1937-45 * 1965-68 drought * The 1982-83 drought, culminating in the horrific Ash Wednesday bushfires * El Niño - 1991 through to 1995 This list is by no means exhaustive, as drought continues in many regions, and has done so since the beginning of this new millennium.
the most common landform in Australia is mostly dry, falt,and mountains.
DroughtThe most common use of the term "drought" refers to meteorological drought, because that is the drought condition most familiar to the general public and the one most easily identified.
Many parts of Australia are still in a state of drought. Some regions have been drought declared for 13 of the past 16 years, particularly in South Australia, central Queensland and parts of Victoria and New South Wales. As one of the world's driest continents, drought is a continual fact of life.
There are no other countries in Australia. Australia is the only country in Australia. Droughts have been known here since the start of European settlement, so it is most likely that the first known drought to affect European settlers occurred within New South Wales, the first state to be settled.
Roman Catholicism is the most common religion in Australia, but there is a very significant number of Anglicans in Australia as well.