Submitted by Paul Daley on
The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work
Generations of Australians have become almost unwittingly familiar with Dorothea Mackellar’s poetic paean to the Australian landscape, My Country.
The lines closest to our tongues for more than a century come from the anthemic second stanza of the six verse poem, first published as Core of My Heart in London in 1908:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plain,
Of rugged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
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