Australia experiences hottest year in 2005, heat on gov't to act
January 5, 2006The heat is on the Australian government to do more to prevent global warming after figures released Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology showed the country experienced its hottest year on record in 2005. David Jones from the bureau told Kyodo News that Australia experienced an average temperature of 22.9 C for 2005, up 1.09 degrees on the long term average of 21.81 C.