Mandaloopy ... eat your heart out.
Canberra has recorded unprecedented smoke pollution (despite the closet fire being more then 50 klm away).
Canberrans woke up to a new year with air quality more than 22 times the hazardous rating.
The 2:00pm air quality index reading in the ACT's southern station at Monash was 4,650 — more than 23 times the hazardous level of 200.