drought tolerant plantings

It's been a weird, hot, long summer here in Melbourne. As a result we've heard a lot of talk about how we should be making our gardens more drought tolerant, that we should be moving away from the traditional manicured front lawns of our past and replanting with native grasses, desert shrubs and succulents.
Personally, the logsters say keep your natives and stuff your succulents...
this is the type of front yardage we should be encouraging.
Excellent work Nono.