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“
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
”
― The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
― The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
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Before she’d moved to the Northern Territory she’d thought it would be a land of perpetual brilliance: blood-red dirt, sapphire skies and emerald trees, and a luminous, pendulous sun reigning over the land. All of that was true – just not at the same time.
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― The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club
― The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club
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