When is a record not a record?

It’s been cold here in Brisbane for the last few days, at least by our subtropical standards, with overnight minimums of 6 degrees in the city, and negative temperatures in towns like Stanthorpe in the nearby Granite Belt. 

Professor John Quiggin.

That occasioned lots of news coverage, with the observation that this was the coldest temperature we’ve had since 2014 and one of the coldest since 2000. The same was true for much of Eastern Australia. Melbourne had its coldest morning in several years, and a couple of towns in NSW had the lowest minimum for several decades.

Read the piece written by the VC Senior Research Fellow from the School of Economics at the University of Queensland, Professor John Quiggin, “When is a record not a record?”