The fragrance of jasmine, honeysuckle and rose, fill up the air and tickle my nose. Sweet peas ramble over hedges, fences and dell, daisies, lilies and hollyhocks beckon, “Come, sit a spell.” ...

When Dorothea Mackellar’s poem My Country was published in 1908 (appearing in London’s Spectator as Core of My Heart) Australians had, according to Deborah Fitzgerald, “finally found their ...

Instead, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives turned to a poem that has become a cornerstone of Israeli verse: “I Have No Other Country,” written by poet Ehud Manor and recorded in ...

Dorothea Mackellar, author of poem My Country, immortalised on giant silo artwork By Anthony Dennis Updated January 9, 2021 — 1.59pm first published at 12.36am ...

It's a long way from the snow and ice of the former Soviet Union to the sun-drenched beaches of Sydney, but perhaps that's the sort of childhood transition required to find new music for Dorothea ...