I live in Australia and go hunting every few weeks, I've also been to NZ. A lot of land in the middle of Au is sure a barren desert, but so is a lot of land in the Middle East.

Australia was never short on food ever since it started farming, way before any kind of harvesters, deeps wells or GMO crops.

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>Dry seasons were less of a problem than you might think

I'm not talking surviving a summer, I'm talking surviving 1997-2009 of continuous driest years on record over huge areas.