AUSTRALIA: SINGED AND SOGGY; BUT NOT SCORCHED AND DROWNING Let´s talk resilience in the time of floods, bushfires, and virus Living in Australia you are not exempt from what happens in the environment. Australia is a vast land, exceeding 7.6 million km²; it is a land of droughts and floods, but also rich, diverse and strong. This year we had unprecedented bushfires and unprecedented floods. Yet we Australians pride ourselves on winning against the odds and adapting to extreme weather. That is who we are; that is what we do. Also, this year the world lives with CorVid-19. There is no need to go into the details of the ramifications and political, economic, social, and human effects this will have on all of us. Yet, we are fortunate because when it is winter in North Asia it is summer in Australia, and as such the life of the virus and a chance of infection is less. Also, we are lucky to have top-notch scientists working on a cure; it was an Institute at the University of M...