Morning Herald: Australia has posted its hottest end to any year as the impact of one of the biggest El Ninos on record began to be felt across the continent.
Mean temperatures were 0.36 degrees above the previous record for the October to December period, capping what was Australia's fifth-hottest year since the Bureau of Meteorology began keeping national figures in 1910.
2015 was another hot year for Australia - and the hottest on record for the world.
"For temperatures, it was a year of two halves -...