Year from hell: nation needs time to heal before hustings begin
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Year from hell: nation needs time to heal before hustings begin
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg depart at the end of Question Time in August.
Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Events are famously the biggest worry for politicians trying to pursue their agendas, and 2020 has had no shortage of them.
The bushfires that bore down on holidaying Australians and blanketed much of the east coast in smoke as the year began were not yet out before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. It has been for many, as Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese put it bluntly in Federal Parliament, the year from hell.