‘It’s like you’re sitting in front of an oven’: surviving the summer in one of Australia’s hottest towns

When the hot winds hit Roebourne, as many as 16 people pile into Yindjibarndi elder Lyn Cheedy’s home – one of the few with air conditioningFew places are more exposed to extreme weather than Roebourne, a tiny cyclone-prone town on the Western Australian coast, where public housing residents endure 50C heat without air conditioning.Lyn Cheedy, a Yindjibarndi elder, takes her grandson to the pool most afternoons. Continue reading...