���Bushfires, ash rain, dust storms and floods”, reads a headline in The Guardian. The editors were not talking about the plagues of Egypt but the conflagration in Australia, which is not far from an end-of-days segment in an apocalypse film. The scale of destruction can’t be assessed right away as the fires still continue to burn but the feeling is that this is something no one has experienced. For Australia this is a defining moment. From now on, time will be divided between the days