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| Dorothea McKellar |
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Australia Dorothea McKellar understood when she wrote “My Country” has, in a
contemporary sense, taken on a new meaning.
It was in the second stanza that the late poet (1855-1968) said:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Much of Australia, in particular the eastern-states and within them the south-east corner, has just emerged from a decade-long drought to be confronted by, first in Queensland and then in Victoria and New South Wales, the “flooding rains”.
So droughts and flooding rains it is.
Just today the ABC reports that “Perth swelters through record heatwaves”.
It was in the second stanza that the late poet (1855-1968) said:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Much of Australia, in particular the eastern-states and within them the south-east corner, has just emerged from a decade-long drought to be confronted by, first in Queensland and then in Victoria and New South Wales, the “flooding rains”.
So droughts and flooding rains it is.
Just today the ABC reports that “Perth swelters through record heatwaves”.
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