SYDNEY • In February, as Australia's bush fire-ravaged summer ended, Mr Richard Beach and his wife Jenny, the owners of a guesthouse and art gallery in the tiny town of Millthorpe, west of Sydney, were hoping for a fresh start and a return of the tourist trade.
They and the town's other 1,251 residents had endured a horrific drought, followed by the worst bush fires on record. But then the Covid-19 pandemic struck.
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