Any bona fide review of the calendar year that corporate and political Australia have endured would necessarily run to hundreds of pages. In this format, sadly, we can only scan through the highlights of the highlights.

“Unprecedented” was, intolerably, the word of 2020. And all of it was: the border closures, the market meltdown, the lockdowns, the government spending, the market recovery, and the gruesome spectacle of the health crisis mishandled elsewhere.