Guardian: Australia is the hottest and, bar Antartica, driest continent on Earth. Parts have been embroiled in record drought for the past decade, leaving reservoirs empty and agriculture decimated. Things got so bad that thousands of camels besieged a Northern Territory town last week in search of water. Even the “ships of the desert” couldn’t cope. Yet something in the frontier ethic of the “big country” still leads many of its residents to grab a cold beer, peer at the horizon and declare: …