Data on mortality, weather and PM10 were obtained for Australia’s three largest
cities Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane for the period from the early tomid 1990’s to
2007. Due to data availability the exact period of observation for each city is
different. For Sydney we obtained data for the period 04/02/1993 to 31/10/2007, for
Melbourne the period 19/05/1995 to 31/10/2007, and for Brisbane for the period 03/
04/1993 to 31/10/2007.