For flood and fire and famine

For gawd's sake, start laughing, this is serious.
Summer in Australia is more than simply a sunburned country. 
This summer, as in most summers, the weather has been extreme in different parts of the country. Devastating floods, hellish bushfires, drought, and even snowfalls. And the really hot weather is still to come.
But this isn't news. I am not trying to be a climate change denier, but Australia has had rough weather for millennia.
As a kid, I remember the country folk who suffered most from the unpredictability of the seasons were still able to have a laugh at their plight. One graphic artist who caught the moods of our country cousins around the 1950s was Emile Mercier.
The media needs to balance the doom and gloom of tragedies with a wry laugh. Its the only way to make sense of what is happeing
Especially on Australia Day