Spare a thought for our earlier generations. And here I'm thinking about drought times going back as far as the 1890s and what I've  gleaned from family diaries.

No electricity of course so no air con or fans. No fridge, but there was what was called a drip safe, a sort of cupboard with hessian down the sides which was kept wet from a drip tank on top. Only minimal cooling from that.Butter for example would turn to oil. If people were lucky or wealthy enough to have a cellar food could be kept cool & preserved for longer.

No fly screens, so you either put up with the flies or kept the windows shut. Which wasn't real comfortable when a wood fired stove was kept going for cooking all day.

The 21st century ain't that bad.

And then of course up to probably the 1940s people continued to wear heavy clothes in our climate. No t-shirts & shorts.
My god, they even wore wool swimsuits.

And what the women wore.coming out of the Victorian era was unbelievable.
Did they die of heat exhaustion? They would today.

WHy does the temp have to do with Aboriginals?