Farmers say there is no normal any more as weather causes one disaster after another

In little more than 12 months Paula Grey’s dairy farm in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, has been threatened by fire, emaciated by drought and inundated with floodwater.

The flooding was so severe that the high ground on her property that neighbours who had lived in the area for 80 years used to tell her would “never flood” did just that.

The flooding has badly affected her herd of dairy cows.

“We’ve got record mastitis issues (a blockage of the cow’s milk ducts),”…