At first, the sight from the helicopter soaring above the Cuttaburra Channels, in outback New South Wales (nsw), seems hard to believe. After a decade of drought, said to be Australia's worst in a century, the plains that were brown and parched just weeks ago are now smiling green. Waves of water from two magically timed floods, in northern nsw and southern Queensland, are slowly making their way south towards the Murray and Darling rivers, bringing the desert back to life with birds, frogs and plants that many outback folk had given up hope of ever seeingrnagain.
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