Premium Content Subscriber only BY any stretch of the imagination 2020 was, to borrow a phrase from the Queen, an "annus horribilis". There's no other way to describe it. At the beginning of 2021, like the start of any new year, there's a glimmer of hope and the promise of better times ahead. How will the Northern Rivers emerge from COVID-19? Will the strong-willed population of our region even take the vaccine against the coronavirus when it becomes available this year? What impact will the government's rollback of JobSeeker and JobKeeper have on this region's fragile economy? Here's six things we would like to see happen as a matter of priority on the Northern Rivers this year: