In 2019, the bushfire season in Queensland started much earlier than expected. After months of fires in areas including the Gold Coast Hinterland and Sunshine Coast, bushfires in NSW and Victoria swelled destroying entire towns on New Year’s Eve. Bureau of Meteorology forecasted that January to March 2020 could have had an equal chance of being wetter or drier than average, though thankfully, the former prevailed. Downpours in February extinguished or assisted firefighting

The QLD Department of Environment and Science (DES) recently provided four days of very much anticipated training on the MEDLI program for modelling effluent disposal to land. The course was excellent and included presenters such as Ted Gardner, Allison Vieritz, Sunil Tennakoon, Bernie Powell, Weijan Wang, Roger Shaw and Ian Ramsay. The course attendees also were also a great group of experienced water professionals including attendees from NSW, WA and NT, from consulting, so