Storytelling With Mama Duck

"My Country" By Dorethea Mckellar


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The famous poem written in England, 1906, by a woman homesick for her country of birth, Australia.

Read by a woman in 2021, conscious of the original sin of Terra Nullis, grateful for the opportunities enjoyed by her children in a sunburnt country, missing the smell of gum leaves and gravel as rain falls on the slate roof of her cottage in Ireland.
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