SUMMER
A season like
no other Where do you begin to describe the events of the past couple of months? After prolonged droughtlike conditions, since last September bushfires have ravaged huge tracts of NSW, Victoria and South Australia, creating one of the biggest natural disasters in the country’s history. Then, in a cruel bookend to it all, unprecedented storms lashed the eastern seaboard in February. ATM editor Brett Robinson looks back on a season that has tested the resilience and resolve of not only turf managers but all Australians.
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