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At times it has been so hot in Gemma McMillan’s home near Penrith that she has bundled up her little boy into the car just for the airconditioning.
Inner West Council is calling on the NSW Government to use planning and building regulations to help keep Sydney cool. At Tuesday night’s meeting
Sydney at sunset. Photo: 123rf/ Andrey Moisseyev Parts of Victoria and New South Wales are sweating through an extreme heatwave that started sweeping across Australia's southeast yesterday. This may seem like just a good excuse to go to the beach, but as the planet heats up and escalating temperatures become less bearable it creates more and more significant challenges to everyday life. Already, heat kills more people in Australia than any other natural disaster, including floods, cyclones and bushfires. Now, faced with the prospect of 50-degree-plus summers, experts say highly urbanised par...
Are Sydney homes "uncomfortably hot" or do our expectations of comfort differ from our parents and grandparents?