Misfortune Teller
Fiona Katauskas
29 March 2025
It was a year of unpredictable and unlikely headlines. Few predicted the comprehensiveness of Labor’s victory in the May federal election, but also how many of us could have foreseen privatised moon travel, artificial marsupial wombs or the United States contemplating the annexation of Greenland and Canada?
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