The heat is on, as Australia plumbs the depths

By Peter Spinks
Updated June 5 2015 - 10:23am, first published May 25 2015 - 1:00am

On the face of it, Australia's future is rosy: renewable energy, a World Wildlife Fund report claims, could meet all our electricity needs by the middle of the century – and at a cost little more than 0.1 to 0.2 per cent of gross domestic product.