On the highway linking Tamworth and Gunnedah in northern NSW, there's a moment straight from a My Country stanza. Atop a rise, the full glorious sweep of the bountiful Liverpool Plains - an ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Dorothea Mackellar's poetry has been used to inspire a love of poetry and passion for country in school ...
The first major biography of Mackellar since Adrienne Howley’s My Heart, My Country (1989), Fitzgerald’s Her Sunburnt Country paints a glowing, occasionally hagiographic, portrait of a poet whose fame ...
Dorothea Mackellar’s My Country is arguably the best-known poem in Australian history. But mines are threatening the homestead that informed it You may not know where it comes from, but there is one ...
Urbenville Public School might only have 21 students but it has just won two coveted awards at Australia's longest-running and biggest schools poetry competition. Urbenville Public School won the ...
Tarrangaua, the secluded sandstone summer retreat on Pittwater formerly owned by acclaimed poet Dorothea Mackellar, has a new custodian. The 1925 waterfront home set in bushland at Lovett Bay has ...
At Kurrumbede, the former holding of Dorothea Mackellar's family, near Gunnedah, it is easy to imagine the poet keening for the Australian landscape in her famous ode to country. The homestead is ...
The artistic and patriotic values of My Country, first published in London in 1908, will be recognised today when the only manuscript of the poem is included in UNESCO’s register of Australian ...
The same house is now listed for sale in 2026 for $25 million. The Georgian Italianate mansion ‘Dunara’ was built in the 1880s. It was the birthplace of Australian Poet Dorothea MacKellar OBE (1885 – ...
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