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In the last week of May last year, I took my oldest daughter to the Blue Mountains for a day walk. We stopped for coffee in Leura and scrunched through drifts of red leaves. Scarlett looked around at the bare branches and asked, “Is it autumn?”

To be fair, the weather in Sydney last year made it hard to tell. There were patches of cold, but with sunshine that made it feel like a

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