From Guest: Who is Sydney and what exactly is the term the bush defined in America. Isn't it brushfire, not bushfire?

"The Bush", as in Ozspeak, is anywhere 'away from the civilised world' which can mean (depending on where the speaker lives and their attitude to other mortals) the outer suburbs of Sydney or "back of Bourke" aka "beyond the black stump". And we no longer talk about Lord Sydney so Sydney isn't a person anymore; like the Olympic Committee President (the one with the dodgy past with the Nazis) said, "Syd a ney" is a place, now.

And, as for Azizi's If the Bush has anything to do with that American political family, I'll take Sydney, you'd be welcome here, although George Dubya (he of the "nucular" weapons references) is commonly known as "The Shrub" and isn't confused (well, he might be, but we aren't) with "The Bush".

Cheers, Rowan