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'In 2020 Australia’s airports are empty and run on skeleton crews; aircraft are parked on tarmacs across the country, the border is shut to all but returning Australians and well-connected millionaires. We’re about to experience life in a low-migration scenario—lower demand, lower housing prices, lower growth, lower congestion—at least until the pandemic ends.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin The Next 80 Years vol. 79 no. 4 Summer 2020 21111248 2020 periodical issue

    'In December's 80th birthday edition of Meanjin, writers address the edition's theme: The Next 80 Years.

    'The issue opens with reflective contributions from all of Meanjin's living past editors. Tara June Winch and Behrouz Boochani offer a conversational meditation on time and the very notion of a future. Bruce Pascoe writes on the strange relationship non-Indigenous Australians have with trees, and wonders when we will realise that the forest is a friend. Jennifer Mills encounters ... herselves ... in a future archive. Peter Doherty sees a future world of worries-many of them viral-but settles on hope and the necessity of individual responsibility. Jess Hill wonders whether existing models of policing are fit for purpose in countering domestic abuse. Michael Mohammed Ahmad writes on whiteness and the idea of 'real Australians'. Jane Rawson looks at dramatic changes in Australian nature and wonders 'who belongs here?' And Raimond Gaita writes on the moral challenges that have been presented by Covid19 and the challenge to our future presented by Black Lives Matter and the quest for Indigenous sovereignty.' (Edition summary)

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