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Happy New Year?

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

7 January 2023

9:00 AM

The month of January is named for the Roman deity Janus, a god with two faces who looks back to the past and forward to the future. As 2023 gets underway, Australia is at last shaking off its pandemic derangement syndrome, yet it is considerably weaker than before it descended into Covid mania.

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