A word from the editor
A word from the editor
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HIS YEAR, IN A word, has been unprecedented;
extraordinary; unmatched; atypical; one of a kind. First bushfires, then a global pandemic, and finally, a civil rights movement. From smoke-filled skies making us choose to stay indoors, to government-mandated orders forcing us to stay indoors — it’s certainly not the year we imagined when we were making our new year’s resolutions. Within minutes of 2020 starting, residents along the NSW south coast had to flee their homes as fires ravaged the landscape. While Australians were still — literally — rising from the ashes after our bushfire season, we were hit by a global pandemic, the likes of which have not been seen for nigh on 100 years. And at the height of this pandemic, a civil rights movement swept through the world with a ferocity and intensity that hasn’t existed since the 1960s. Accordingly, for ease of use, we’ve broken up this magazine into three distinct sections:
Environment, pandemic, protest. That’s roughly in the chronology that these unprecedented events struck. What has also been unprecedented this year was the success of The Comma (wow, look at that seamless segue way). We’ve published 250 articles (and counting), four of which were republished on news.com.au, Australia’s leading news website. Our readership is up by 146 per cent compared to previous years and we’ve had over 42,000 clicks on our articles since 2020 started. Let me just repeat that: 42,000 clicks!
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