Wouldn't California's Gross State Product be skewed by Hollywood? Australia doesn't have a global, multi-billion dollar entertainment industry like that. And our population is smaller, more isolated, highly centralised around a three of four small areas and our government debt is roughly the same as California's.

And objectively speaking, our drought was worse. It started in some parts of the country in 1994 and didn't end until 2012. I almost died from rota virus when I was a kid because our home didn't have water. But hey, all the farmers who committed suicide, the bushfires that destroy hundreds of homes and killed many people, the effect these events had on people I knew, none of that matters at all; you don't like this guy's snotty attitude, you need to show him whose boss, even if it means not even writing the correct dollar amounts down.