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'Australian writers respond to the year's challenges.'

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It’s No Accident That Blak Australia Has Survived the Pandemic so Well. Survival Is What We Do Melissa Lucashenko , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 23 July 2020;
'First we made it through the ice age. Then the catastrophe of British invasion. Whatever history has thrown at blackfellas we have endured.'
This Pandemic Exposes the Source of True Fear – Our Utter Powerlessness Melanie Cheng , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 5 August 2020;
As I Mourn My Mother the Pandemic Rolls On. Is the Whole World, like Me, Frozen in Grief? James Bradley , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 August 2020;

'I try to make sense of her sudden absence but every hour, every minute, brings some new and usually terrifying development.'

‘Energised by Disruption’ : 2020 Sows a New Way Forward for Food Gabrielle Chan , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 29 July 2020;

'A hole has opened up in the system that takes pride of place in the Australian identity – our ability to bring produce to market. But change is coming.'

In the Staggering Dislocation of 2020, I Think of the Many Gifts My Parents Gave Me Christos Tsiolkas , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 26 July 2020;

'For most Australians, two events of biblical solemnity will define this year: fire and plague. How should we respond?' 

Racism Burns Australia like Pox and Plague. We're Not All in This Together Kim Scott , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 August 2020;

'Aboriginal heritage and the natural environment need to be at the centre of national reconstruction.'

Greed, Cruelty, Consumption : The World Is Changed Yet Its Worst Persists Omar Sakr , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 16 August 2020;

'I have no great hope we will use this chance to transform for the better – but this is an unconvincing darkness, and we do not have to stay in it.'

Where Can You Be Safe in This World? Maybe We're Asking the Wrong Question Jane Rawson , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 12 August 2020;

'The overarching project of my life has been making myself safe. But what is the point if everyone else is drowning and burning and starving?' 

From the Wreck of the Pandemic We Can Salvage and Resurrect an Inner Life Nyadol Nyuon , 2020 single work
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 9 August 2020;

 'Covid gives us an opportunity to weigh up what truly belongs and what can be left back in the life before the plague.' 

When We Woke on the First Day of 2020, We Knew This Year Was Going to Be Different Alison Croggon , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 2 October 2020;

'It seems that every problem that has rumbled beneath our feet for the past 60 years has hit crisis point, all at once.' 

Hello, Harriet: How the Pandemic Has Led Me Back to an Old Friend, and to My Young Self Kate Cole-Adams , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 23 August 2020;

'In a world without coronavirus, there are conversations that might never have happened. Their nature, too, is different'

Murray-Darling Mismanagement : Floods, Water Theft, and Burke and Wills’s Camels Sophie Cunningham , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 30 August 2020;
Burning Bush, Melting Arctic, a Deadly Virus : Nobody Said the End Times Would Be Boring John Birmingham , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 September 2020;

'For one brief shining moment it seemed humanity’s inability to imagine much beyond our lived experience was irrelevant. Covid was coming for us all.' 

As Our Former Lives Dissolve into Uncertainty, Facts Are Something Solid to Cling to Lenore Taylor , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 September 2020;

'Misinformation and dangerous conspiracy theories thrive when people are stressed and alone. At this moment democratic society desperately needs strong journalism.'

As Time Becomes Kaleidoscopic, I Find It Unbearable to Think Too Far into My Children's Future Delia Falconer , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 September 2020;

'‘Stop the world’ the musical hero said whenever things went wrong. I’ve been feeling this way for a few years now.'

The Megafires and Pandemic Expose the Lies That Frustrate Action on Climate Change Tim Flannery , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 September 2020;

'If there was a moment of true emergency in the fight to preserve our climate, it is now.'

'We Brought the Disease' : Will the Pandemic Shift Australia's Historical Imagination? Billy Griffiths , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 24 September 2020;

'The global story unfolding is not only about microbes; it is also about culture, politics and history. The spread of disease is not without responsibility.'

The Music of the Virus : Sadness, Relief and Communal Consolation Brenda Walker , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 September 2020; Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 2020;

'We have a sense of what it means to live in disturbing times, to live under threat. We should not forget the many people who have known this all their lives.'

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First known date: 2020

Works about this Work

Shelf Reflection : Sam Van Zweden Sam van Zweden , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , February 2021;
y separately published work icon At Home with Sophie Cunningham Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2020 23451819 2020 single work podcast interview

'Sophie Cunningham is the editor behind the 2020 anthology Fire, Flood, Plague. She is also the author of six books, including City of Trees and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy.

'Sophie is a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie Cunningham was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contributions to literature.' (Production introduction)

Sophie Cunningham (ed.), Fire Flood Plague Louise Swinn , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5-11 December 2020;

— Review of Fire, Flood and Plague – Essays about 2020 2020 series - publisher essay

'This lousy year, while the world has been ravaged, Australia’s remoteness has rendered our experience utterly singular. Fire Flood Plague, brainchild of the Copyright Agency, begins with a bleak time line that gives us ample opportunity to digest the pummelling we’ve been meted: “January 14: With fires raging across NSW and temperatures reaching 49ºC, Premier Gladys Berejiklian declares a state of emergency. Air quality in Melbourne is the worst in the world.” For this anthology, Sophie Cunningham curates a coterie of writers who help to shift the political discourse and emphasise just how rapidly it needs to advance.' (Introduction)

Sophie Cunningham (ed.), Fire Flood Plague Louise Swinn , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5-11 December 2020;

— Review of Fire, Flood and Plague – Essays about 2020 2020 series - publisher essay

'This lousy year, while the world has been ravaged, Australia’s remoteness has rendered our experience utterly singular. Fire Flood Plague, brainchild of the Copyright Agency, begins with a bleak time line that gives us ample opportunity to digest the pummelling we’ve been meted: “January 14: With fires raging across NSW and temperatures reaching 49ºC, Premier Gladys Berejiklian declares a state of emergency. Air quality in Melbourne is the worst in the world.” For this anthology, Sophie Cunningham curates a coterie of writers who help to shift the political discourse and emphasise just how rapidly it needs to advance.' (Introduction)

Shelf Reflection : Sam Van Zweden Sam van Zweden , 2021 single work column
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , February 2021;
y separately published work icon At Home with Sophie Cunningham Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2020 23451819 2020 single work podcast interview

'Sophie Cunningham is the editor behind the 2020 anthology Fire, Flood, Plague. She is also the author of six books, including City of Trees and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy.

'Sophie is a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie Cunningham was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contributions to literature.' (Production introduction)

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