Tasmanian leaders put the pandemic year behind them, but what’s in store for 2021?

Not even the sharpest clairvoyant could have predicted the pain and pressures of 2020.

In Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein’s own oft-repeated words: “I do not have a crystal ball.”

If he did, you might wonder whether he would have so readily put his hand up to take over the premiership from Will Hodgman.

Sitting down with the ABC this week, Mr Gutwein said the year had been difficult but that Tasmanians had shown enormous strength.

“I never could’ve imagined we would have to deal with COVID, and some of the challenges we’ve had to deal with,” he said.

Labor and the Greens agree — with varying degrees of enthusiasm — that Mr Gutwein has been a decisive and…