Under normal circumstances, you would be reading an article about the beautiful landscapes of Australia’s Far South Coast instead of this text.
Our Australia columnist, Peter Flynn, visited the area recently and wrote an inviting and sunny story about this region — it is where he grew up and where much of his family lives — for this issue of Spotlight. Sadly, as this article went to press, terrible bushfires were burning across much of the area.
As you will have seen in the news, the fires have been hitting New South Wales and other parts of Australia hard. Our thoughts are with all the people in this area who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods over the past months.
Yours
Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief