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Sunday, March 15, 2020

Think the world is ending? Grab a shovel, not a shopping trolley | Adam Liaw

As fears of coronavirus intensify, Australian supermarket shelves have been stripped of dry goods – but it’s gardeners who are best prepared

A year’s worth of dried pasta? A hundred cans of tuna? Fist fights over toilet paper? If you’ve been to a supermarket in the past week or so it’s clear that things are not normal.

Earlier this year Australians were reeling from a summer of drought and fire, but we were still keeping it together. The national psyche was fortified by an outpouring of compassion and generosity at home and abroad.

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