Here's ACOSS's Director for Climate and Energy, Kelly Court.

were living in hot boxes essentially so homes without insulation they didn't have the ability to cool their homes so they didn't have an air conditioning or if they did have an air condition they couldn't afford to run the air conditioning that's really concerning for us you know the home should be a safe place especially in heat waves and you know people shouldn't have to leave their home to stay cool so you know from our perspective this is really a big health impact that we're not doing enough about to address and it's particularly bad in remote northern australia especially for first nations communities where they're living in homes that um you know often are just under a tin roof there's a brick blocks no verandas that sort of thing um And people end up sleeping outside of the night time because the house just does not cool down.

So we're certainly seeing in First Nations communities the impact of increasing heat waves and poor quality homes on health outcomes for those people.

But you might be interested in knowing that you're not alone in this experience.

So when it comes to struggling to cool their home, one of the most outstanding figures was renters compared to homeowners.

So 86% of renters compared to 32% of homeowners reported that their homes were too hot and they struggled to cool them.

And then if we looked at First Nations people, it was 90% compared to 74%.

And then for people experiencing a disability or medical condition, it was 78% compared to 73%.