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In heat waves, need big extension of leafy suburbs

Posted on February 10, 2016 by groundswellbasscoast

More than twice as many people perished in Melbourne during the 2009 heatwave leading up to Black Saturday than died in the devastating fireson that day. Extreme heat is a slow-motion disaster. The tendency to respond to heat as an emergency rather than … Continue reading →

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