Mildura public housing tenants sleep by river to escape heat

MILDURA’S public housing tenants take desperate measures to keep cool during sweltering heatwaves, including sleeping on mattresses outside or by the river at night, new research has revealed. Data from a research project, conducted by Mallee Family Care and the University of Sydney in 2018-19, showed 77 per cent of Mildura’s summer nights were above […]