Hervey Bay is a lovely spot, seems like it has had more prosperous days, but if you lived a little bit out of town you'd escape most of the LP.
As Ron says, close to the coast gives you the coastal breezes that take the edge off, and when summer is too much to bear, there is always air conditioning
It's very different from Canberra... we don't get 40 degree heat up here, nor below freezing temps
I often use an SCT and find dew tends to be more of a problem in winter, when the temperature can drop quite substantially, rather than the humid summer, when the temperature doesn't feel like it drops much at all.