Our daughter went back to school on Monday of this week, after the summer holidays. She’s one of the lucky ones. Her classroom is air-conditioned.

Many Brisbane and Queensland schoolchildren are not so fortunate and are forced to sit stewing in swelteringly hot classrooms trying to do their schoolwork.

In a relatively wealthy state and country, it’s intolerable that classrooms aren’t air-conditioned in mid- summer.

You can bet your bottom dollar that the state government has all of its own buildings air-conditioned. As far as schools are concerned, the government says they plan to air condition all state schools in the “long term”. (I’d interpret that as a politician’s euphemism for “sometime never”.)

If you are planning a move to Brisbane, you really need to ask schools whether they have air conditioning or not. For the sake of your kids, find one with air-conditioned classrooms.