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As we sit to write these opening lines, it is incredible to think back over the last two years and realise that you never really know what is coming around the corner. January 2020 and Australia had just come off one of the most prolonged droughts in history and was coming to the tail-end of catastrophic bushfires that impacted urban and country people alike. On the political front, our then Prime Minister had gone AWOL to Hawaii for a family holiday.
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Baum, S., Baker, E., Davies, A., Stone, J., Taylor, E. (2022). COVID-19 and Australian Cities: When the Pandemic Came to Town. In: Pandemic Cities. Cities Research Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5884-7_1
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