Australia has long had its freakishly hot days, but this summer feels different | Brigid Delaney

We still imagine our summers filled with long days at the beach but Australia is increasingly becoming a hellscape better spent indoors

One minute we are all in court watching interminable CCTV footage of me in a car getting pulled over by police on Bondi Road, and the next minute we are all sitting in darkness. The power is out. The courtroom has gone black.

It’s a brown-out – caused by stress on the electricity grid due to the Thursday’s extreme heat in Sydney.

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