Our year of living dangerously
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By Cameron Woodhead
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Essays
Ed., Tanya Plibersek
NewSouth, $32.99
Commissioned, composed and compiled to the unforgiving deadline of history unfolding, these two books of Australian essays address the rolling emergencies confronting the world through 2020.
Fire Flood Plague collects the thoughts of Australian writers on climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Upturn: A Better Normal, edited by Tanya Plibersek, offers views and vision statements from former Labor politicians, community and industry leaders and policy wonks about Australia’s challenges in every significant area of public life, using the calamity of 2020 as an inflection point.