Since it was written in 1904, "My Country" has spoken ... but rather a distilled version of Australia. As we dream of our future travels, here are 10 of the poem's descriptions and the places ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

Australia really isn't ... joy and awe. My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches by David Marr. This is a book of power and poetry, an essential documenting of this place and of the people ...

Later, she re-titled the poem My Country and its second stanza remains the best known most quoted stanza of poetry in Australia, beginning with that belligerent, youthful and anthemic cry of “I ...

But how exceptional are these events compared to when Australia became a Federation in 1901? Mackellar was only 19 when she penned the poem ‘My Country’ in England in 1904. She was dreaming of ...

MY COUNTRY AUSTRALIA is the third in a series of musical ... Lockley has selected poems he has loved since childhood and put them to music, reflecting his belief that the great Australian poets ...

MY COUNTRY AUSTRALIA is the third in a series of musical ... Lockley has selected poems he has loved since childhood and put them to music, reflecting his belief that the great Australian poets ...