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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Burning Bush, Melting Arctic, a Deadly Virus : Nobody Said the End Times Would Be Boring
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'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.' 

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    y separately published work icon Fire Flood Plague : Australian Writers Respond to 2020 Sophie Cunningham (editor), Melbourne : Vintage Australia , 2020 19897834 2020 anthology essay

    'Leading Australian writers respond to the challenges of 2020, to create a vital cultural record of these extraordinary times.

    'Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a year.

    'Including original pieces from Lenore Taylor, Nyadol Nuon, Christos Tsiolkas, Melissa Lucashenko, Billy Griffiths, Jess Hill, Kim Scott, Brenda Walker, Jane Rawson, Omar Sakr, Richard McGregor, Jennifer Mills, Gabrielle Chan, John Birmingham, Tim Flannery, Rebecca Giggs, Kate Cole-Adams, George Megalogenis, James Bradley, Alison Croggan, Melanie Cheng, Kirsten Tranter, Tom Griffiths, Joelle Gergis and Delia Falconer.' (Publication summary)

    Melbourne : Vintage Australia , 2020
    pg. 11-18
    Note: With title: The Year of Lethal Wonders
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    y separately published work icon The Guardian Australia 4 September 2020 20034336 2020 newspaper issue 2020
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