SYDNEY — This weekend, if the weather’s a corker, millions of people will head to the beach for Australia Day, when the nation commemorates the arrival of British settlers to Sydney Harbor on Jan.
Beach shacks have long been isolated and precarious. What we find charming today was once considered ‘fringe-dwelling’, separated from cities along racial and economic lines.
The irony of hating the beach is that I live in St Kilda, one of Australia’s most iconic beach suburbs. Yet, the last time I swam in the bay was in 2020, during lockdown. Faced with swimming in ...