Australian: MUCH of inland Australia sweltered as towns from Ivanhoe and Pooncarie in far-western NSW to Onslow in the Pilbara, Kerang in Victoria and Marree in South Australia hit 45C yesterday. But even those temperatures can’t beat the searing conditions of 70 years ago, when records were broken over a period of four days through NSW, Victoria, the ACT and South Australia. State record highs of 49.7C in Menindee in NSW and 47.2C in Mildura in Victoria, set in January 1939, still stand …