Suddenly sunshine

http://www.imagesaustralia.com/mycountry.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Mackellar

 Are Australians brainwashed to be stoic?
 This question I ask as Australia is currently flooding in 5 states and is also in bush fire season and cyclone season with the usual assorted droughts.
 UK newspapers have praised Australians for not complaining or appearing to be self pitying as allegedly do the UK populace when faced with disaster- I remain objective. This is the analysis of a UK journalist not myself.
  If this is so then it could be, ironically, the English -stiff upper lip- influence on Australian culture. This manifests as the Australian -she'll be right mate- attitude, also corresponding to popular culture music lyric -dont worry, be happy- considered inane by some.
 Another reason could be more sinister. Brainwashing. Generations of Australian kids have been forced to recite the poetry of
Dorothy Mc Kellar and others of similar genre. See above links. Is this a bad thing? I am uncertain on this. Maybe it is boring and low level anti social to whinge but if not complaining helps incompetent administrators get away with it then stoicism could be a counterproductive aspect of the national psyche.  
 I have analysed this because people are continueing to migrate to Australia and there is really no habitable space left so people will continue dwelling in flood plains and marginalizing the remaining wild life thats not yet extinct.  And suffering consequently. 
 Yet another reason Australians can be stoic is if they have pioneer blood they may in the course of  a harsh upbringing by a harsh line of battling settler soldiers/convicts/agriculturalists or very poor people, have got the impression they are born to suffer.
 Who knows the true reasons for Australian's stoicism if it actually exists.                   Most Australians cope by going to the beach. Australians are for the most part, coastal dwellers as frankly the climate is very harsh and hot everywhere else on the sunburned country with droughts and flooding rains, terror and beauty you might have to be indoctrinated to love.

   I had a splash in the sea this morning and it was cold and brackish.  Far out towards the horizon -brown water with an aquamarine line delineated in the distance. Suddenly sunny yet yesterday flash flood warnings.
  Australia's current floods are connected to record warm ocean temperatures off the north coast apparently.
  Intrepid people in Scotland, England and Russia are in the news for bravely swimming in their oceans in the current northern winter. Yet their sea surface temperatures may be equal or more than their land temperature whilst mine was colder.  
 There was a lot of froth in the sea this morning and the water was brown as mentioned with rotting kelp washed up and stinking, a lovely quite big hairy dead crab on it's back and missing a leg and beautiful slimy red jelly cups sucking to rocks. The gas emitted by the sea weed is actually carbon monoxide as in car fumes apparently.  Maybe this is why the beach can be soporific?