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"I remember attending a suicide 20 years ago. Even now, driving home at night in the dark, if I'm in the car on my own and I look through the rear-view mirror, I can see him on the back seat," she said.

Kristy Lees, who watched the battle unfold in her rear-view mirror, told the BBC: "It's not everyday a big, male kangaroo decides to take you on... Even in Australia, you do not expect to see it."

"I'm looking in the rear-view mirror and they are throwing punches."

“That said, the strikes really challenged the box-office volume for a while, but that’s now in the rear-view mirror.”

It was only later, after the pandemic receded into our collective rear-view mirror, that I recognized another, underlying reason I talked money so much in the teeth of my frustration and fear.