Opinion
Politics as usual went out the window in 2020, as stay-at-home orders, prospective vaccines and the promise of ‘vertical consumption’ became our proverbial New Normal – not to mention the odd frightened moment as we approached Christmas.
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While South Australia looks set to celebrate a COVID-safe Christmas, New Year’s Eve festivities at a host of nightclubs and venues are likely to be dance-free, with operators expressing frustration at delays processing their COVID Management Plans.
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For a twist on the traditional Christmas drinks column, Philip White ponders the various legends of Yuletide consumption – including one which suggests magic mushrooms may explain the story of Santa and his ‘flying’ reindeer.
The reality for people in Bethlehem now or tourists wishing to visit the ancient city remains deeply politically fraught, writes Freya Higgins-Desbiolles from UniSA.
Another year almost gone, another election campaign around the corner… ’tis the season to take stock, and not in a Mid-Year Budget Review kind of way. It’s been a tumultuous, eventful and often depressing 12 months, a year to test the resolve of mere prose. So instead, in his final column for 2016, Tom Richardson returns to an old favourite.
Christmas is a time to rediscover the good in each other and ourselves, writes economics commentator Richard Blandy.
