What do Sydney and other cities have in common? Dust
- Written by Malini Sur, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Sydney and its suburbs have been enveloped in haze over the past few days. The haze is a mixture of bushfire smoke and dust blown in from western New South Wales. As particles move from rural locations, like Gospers Mountain in this case, they make grey cities.
In Australia, dust blurs the distinction between the bush and the city. Elsewhere it...