Where's the climate change spinn doctors now and the spin that there's never going to be any full lakes again???

Keep raining and filling the lakes. Hopefully Learmonth will fill!!! oh and anyone want to buy a house on Lake Learmonth foreshore?

Albert, most climate science is suggesting that rather than just becoming drier and hotter, climate change is more likely to cause more extremes such as more severe droughts and flooding. Whether or not man made climate change can be proven is it worth continuing to ignore warning signs until catastrophic events occur or would we be better off trying to change the way we do things. It hasn't been disproven yet either, and I would rather not blindly continue the way we are at the risk of my kids, grand kids and all future generations. Better to be safe than sorry, it can't do any harm to live cleaner

The spin doctors will try to put anything on this wetting event, no wonder they were caught out badly backing useless wind turbines slapped near people's homes. Silent majority fed up with spin doctors and try hard greens

To Albert, one year of normal rain fall doesn't negate the 16 years of drought before hand, and does not guarantee normal rain falls will continue.

Id call this weekends rains an extreme weather event.It is unusual but doesnt mean we will have full lakes,I wonder what will be thrown at us this summer??

Well said 'sick of redneck ideas'! The lakes (and reservoirs) aren't full 'Albert' and this is only one wet winter! Don't count your chickens yet!

Albert - I afraid you seriously misunderstand climate change science. It does not suggest that it will necessarily be hot and drier but rather that weather patterns are changing. For example, the massive floods in Pakistan and the unprecedented bushfires in Russia are both consistent with climate change science.

And I suppose that the council spending millions of OUR money to fill Lake Wendouree was a major priority. The funny thing is that Burrumbeet will probably fill 1st without them spending a cent. The battery is charged up in the boat. Let it rain.

Well.. It's an important part of Ballarat.. It needs to have water in it. Here in QLD, a few years ago , there was no water in Wivenhoe dam.. They said it would never fill up again.. Rain came and it is full now.. Climate change is a lot of BS.. Australia is a very dry place.. Just make sure it's full for the next time I visit home...