A year like no other: the horror and courage of Australia in 2020
A bushfire calamity, the pandemic and China's undeclared economic war - these are the lessons we learned from an unprecedented year.
The faces of the year: clockwise from left: Anthony Albanese, Boris Johnson, Jayne Hrdlicka, Daniel Andrews, Joe Bide, James Packer, Gladys Berejiklian, Brendan Murphy, Scott Morrison and Xi Jinping. David Rowe
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian recalls that at March’s final COAG meeting “I was the only leader who didn’t shake hands or hug. We were on edge. There was a bit of trepidation.”
Around the time there were echoes of the “Beware the Ides of March” warning of the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s play of the same name. The words came true in the Roman leader’s gory death on March 15, and 2065 years later the date marks not just the end of COAG but the death of the old Australia and emergence of a ravaged nation exposed as never before.
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