This report lists many more deaths from heatwave than Black Saturday bush fires. Additionally it tells how our big, centralised, sprawling electricity infrastructure cam close to complete meltdown. Private sector high profit, low maintenance regime means risk of meltdown is rising. Of course, when it does break, our leaders, always competing to be lowest tax, smallest public sector and budget surplus, will hock us up to the eyeballs with transnational “robber barons” of big utility industry.

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