Nyngan mum's dramatic dust photo caught in media 'storm'

John Ellicott
Updated January 22 2020 - 2:02pm, first published 1:30pm
Marcia Macmillan's amazing photo of her daughter running into a dust storm east of Nyngan that went around the world - a media feeding frenzy that has shocked her. Photo: Marcia Macmillan.
Marcia Macmillan's amazing photo of her daughter running into a dust storm east of Nyngan that went around the world - a media feeding frenzy that has shocked her. Photo: Marcia Macmillan.

It's a photo of struggle and defiance that went around the world highlighting how the Australian continent is being besieged. But for the photographer it was not a bid for sympathy.

John Ellicott

John Ellicott

senior journalist

journalist and author

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