Clever NASA animation quickly portraying 12 months of global CO2 concentrations illustrate how large CO2 concentrations is mainly a Northern Hemisphere thing and Australia is mostly a sink. Eye-Popping View of CO2, Critical Step for Carbon-Cycle Science 14Dec2016
You have to play it a few times and watch Australia. Towards the end in winter 2015 a few fires flare red in the Kimberleys.
A year earlier NASA made a global video of the period from May to August 2015. The animation rotates and Australia gets obscured at times but well worth playing a few times. Australia mostly has low CO2 levels showing we are a global sink. For large image May 2015 
If you look carefully red dots show here and there mostly indicating fires in northern Australia. At the end the animation forms a globe – rotates 3 times and shows the pale blue-green Australian CO2 sink with southern oceans mostly yellow.
Was it here I read years ago where the Oz landmass absorbs all our industrial emissions?
There is this CSIRO research
Australian carbon emissions absorbed by our landmass ? 16Apr2009
I’m surprised the Ministry of Truth hasn’t disappeared that abstract. Can you imagine that being published by the CSIRO today.
Wash your mouth out!
I’ve come to regard honest information flow (I include the NASA video here) as somewhat akin to an imperfect black hole.
Hard, useful, empirical data is constantly and assiduously tamped down into the hole by the self-elected gatekeepers. Occasionally, however, a stray bolt of “light” escapes. The reaction of the gatekeepers is to tamp the escapee back in furiously while metaphorically bashing the errant gatekeeper who let it escape.
The hapless Dr Andrew P who while giving a presentation at a greenie conference at Sydney Uni in 2019 incautiously pointed out that drought and anthropogenic climate change had not been “linked”. He was unaware he was being recorded by someone in the audience.
The gatekeepers, especially from the ABC, pounded his little head to metaphorical dust. The NASA video here has been tamped into the black hole of the forgettery.
The ABC has yet to recognize the influence of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) on the drying long term drought setting the scene for the huge bush fires of 2019-2020
The Melbourne Age newspaper only in March 2020 ran a short piece about the IOD only some three months after the Bureau of Meteorology had in November of 2019 ran a series of videos explaining the impacts of the weather systems in the four oceans surrounding our island continent -ie the Indian Ocean, The Pacific , The Southern ocean and the seas to the north of Australia
You might like this latest from the NSW Govt download pdf Net Zero Plan Stage 1: 2020–2030 ianl8888 they do accept that NSW is a CO2 sink.
At the top of page 19 they say [The primary industry sector contributes more than $13 billion to
the NSW economy every year and is the main driver of economic prosperity in regional New South Wales.]
I think “primary industry sector” is code for agriculture, fisheries, horticulture, grazing etc. I wonder if that $13Bn takes into account droughts.
Down page 20 they say [Currently farmed livestock in Australia is worth more than $30 billion
per year..] Can not filter out the actual NSW figure.
At the bottom of page 20 I enjoyed the photo of the “bushfire fuel generation” & thick piles of fuel in background.
Page 22 is headed Coal innovation – and they do admit [New South Wales’ $36 billion mining sector…] Yes it dwarfs the agri sector. I thought NSW Govt had been spruiking “Coal innovation” or similar for yonks. Am I imagining that?
Skipping down over lots of jolly good sounding stuff which I assume is heavy on bleeding money from the Feds where possible – on page 32 – FANFARES – [The NSW Government has also committed to expanding the national parks estate by at least 200,000 hectares by June 2021.] I read where NSW has 7Mill ha in Nat Parks so adding another 1/35 of that is hardly big news. But in a rational world we should be reducing NSW Nat Parks.