2020 was a year no one wanted to have and 2021 has been no easier. Climate change is making its presence terrifyingly real as unprecedented weather events continue to unleash fires, floods, and catastrophic storms. Outclassing any of these disasters is the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural disaster of immeasurable impact. Australia shut down for the long haul in March 2020, closing not only to the world but also within its own state and territory borders. Only now, in late 2021, as we are just beginning to plan to leave this isolation, am I writing the editorial for ab-Original Volume 4: 2020, an unprecedented two volumes together. The team behind the journal, like many trying to keep academic endeavours afloat, were overwhelmed by the volume of work created by the “Zoom boom” as we all went online. We were also overcome by pandemic grief and the crippling anxiety of not knowing...

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