Canberrans are breathing easier this summer but are we prepared for another season of choking bushfire smoke?

A year on from Canberra recording the world’s worst air pollution for several days in a row, the ACT’s Health Minister says the city is better placed to deal with a bushfire smoke disaster, but admits “we haven’t significantly improved”.

Canberra was kept indoors by 35 days of hazardous air quality last summer, and its systems struggled to cope.

There were 166 ‘smoke-related’ presentations to the…