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Leading article Australia

Normal normal

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

19 December 2020

9:00 AM

After one of the most gruelling and troubling years of the last few decades, the one thing most of us wish for over the summer holidays is a return to normality; not the ‘new’ normal’, not ‘Covid normal’, but just a good old-fashioned normal normal. Or, as our Summer Special cover by Sarah Dudley and Ben Davis beautifully summarises: ’What do you want for Christmas?’ Answer: ‘Christmas.’

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