Australia lost a record 12 hours per person of potential outdoor work to intolerable heat in 2024, a Lancet Countdown report has revealed

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Nearly 60 per cent of the 175 million possible labour hours were in construction, a sector already struggling with productivity and under pressure to deliver more homes to house the population affordably.

Hot and humid days halting outdoor work was estimated to cost around AU$8.2 billion last year.

The annual stocktake from the prominent medical journal says Australians were exposed to record-high hours of

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