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    Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian poet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in...
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    Australia. It was built from 1882 to 1883. It is also known as the Dorothea Mackellar birthplace. The property is privately owned. It was added to the New...
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    "My Country" is a poem about Australia, written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in the United Kingdom. After travelling...
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    the father of poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar. Charles Mackellar was born in Sydney, the only son of Dr Frank Mackellar (a physician from Dundee, Scotland)...
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  • Mackellar is the surname of: Dorothea Mackellar, influential bush poet Duncan Mackellar and his identically named nephew, Duncan Mackellar, Junior, both...
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    served in the Senate from October to November 1903, and his daughter Dorothea Mackellar, a 20th-century Australian poet. The division was proclaimed at the...
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    owners included the Hon. J. T. Walker, Sir Charles and Lady Mackellar, the father of poet Dorothea McKellar; Sir Samuel and Lady Cohen; and Sir John Garvan...
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  • poet Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968), Australian poet and writer Dorothea Macnee (1896–1984) British socialite and mother of Patrick Macnee Dorothea Maria...
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    themselves the Gunn-e-darr, the most famous of whom was Cumbo Gunnerah. Dorothea Mackellar wrote her famous poem My Country (popularly known as I Love a Sunburnt...
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  • as Manly Vale High School, and then became Mackellar Girls High School, named in honour of Dorothea Mackellar, the school caters for approximately 1,200...
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    Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C. J. Dennis and Dorothea Mackellar. Dennis wrote in the Australian vernacular, while Mackellar wrote the iconic patriotic poem My Country...
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    School painters and writers like Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and Dorothea Mackellar. The World Wars profoundly impacted Australia's national identity...
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  • remarried Dr Frederick Mackellar whose only son was Charles Mackellar, who in turn had a daughter, the poet Dorothea Mackellar. J. V. Byrnes, 'McGarvie...
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  • Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1933) 1885 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (d. 1968) 1887 – Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English...
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    including: Henry Lawson (writer and poet); Henry Kendall (poet); Dorothea Mackellar (poet); Jules François Archibald (journalist and benefactor of the...
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  • David Lloyd George Malcolm MacColl Rose Macaulay Ramsay Macdonald Dorothea Mackellar contributed her poem “My Country” (1908). Harold Macmillan Noel Malcolm...
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    Imbruglia. In the podcast she recites poetry by the late Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar. Natalie Imbruglia is the elder sister of singer-songwriter Laura...
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  • "My Country" is a poem about Australia written by Dorothea Mackellar. My Country may also refer to: My Country: The New Age, a 2019 South Korean television...
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    Mike Freelander Labor Outer-metropolitan Mackellar 1949 New South Wales 233 Charles and Dorothea Mackellar Politician and poet Sophie Scamps Independent...
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    Country Poets  Australia Dorothea Mackellar, Mary Gilmore, Judith Wright, Henry Lawson, Adam Lindsay Gordon, A. B. "Banjo" Paterson  Fiji Kamla Prasad...
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    and daughter of Joseph Beresford Grant Sir Charles Mackellar and his daughter, poet Dorothea Mackellar Olive Fitzhardinge, resident 1917–1937, breeder of...
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  • McDonald (born 1941) Ella McFadyen (1887–1976) Greg McLaren (born 1967) Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) Louise Mack (1870–1935) Seaforth Mackenzie (1913–1955)...
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    "Eliza Aria") Land of Sweeping Plains, SA choir and piano (set to Dorothea Mackellar, My Country) Rockhampton Garden Symphonies, solo voices, mixed choirs...
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  • Forrest — A Bachelor's Wife Louise Mack — The House of Daffodils Dorothea Mackellar & Ruth M. Bedford — Two's Company Ambrose Pratt Her Assigned Husband...
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    Horne's 1964 book of the same name), and two phrases deriving from Dorothea Mackellar's 1908 poem "My Country" – "the sunburnt country" and "the wide brown...
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    Country", and "the Wide Brown Land". The latter two both derive from Dorothea Mackellar's 1908 poem "My Country". Indigenous Australians comprise two broad...
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  • 1906 Australian federal election: Alfred Deakin was reelected. 1908 Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country The Dalgety proposal for the national capital...
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    is a patriotic poem about Australia published in 1908 written by Dorothea Mackellar when she was 19 and homesick living in England. The Lucky Country...
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    (1876–1957) Geoffrey Lehmann (b. 1940) James McAuley (1917-1976) Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) Francis 'Frank the Poet' MacNamara (1810-1862) Harry 'Breaker'...
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    the Sydney PEN Centre in collaboration with her friend, the poet Dorothea Mackellar. As honorary secretary she traveled to Buenos Aires as the club's...
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