Australia's extreme weather may have disappeared from global headlines, but the country's miners and farmers are still feeling its effects. Parts of northern Victoria's cropping zones are still under several metres of water two months after inundation, and three out of four Queensland coal mines are still working under 'transitional environmental programmes' to remove water from their sites. More frustratingly, sodden northern regions continue to be re-soaked by torrential rainfall, courtesy of the dying but still potent La Nina climate pattern.
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