Cirrus@Austlit

'EVERYONE has stories about the coronavirus pandemic, most of them not so good.

It separated families, emptied community store shelves, confronted people with sky-high food bills, landed new mums and people with mental health issues in quarantine and revived memories of being locked down in missions and jails.'

'Is it getting too hot for our mob?

'JUST as experts predicted Australia’s catastrophic bush fires of this summer decades ago, they also agree that poor communities around the world will be the most vulnerable in a hotter, drier and more unpredictable climate.

'Aboriginal people in remote communities will be among the hardest hit.

'In Central Australia, climate records continue to be broken. In January 2019, meteorologists declared the driest summer ever in Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, while 2018 was the hottest on record in Central Australia, with 55 days above 40 degrees.'