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Mackellar

British  
/ məˈkɛlə /

noun

  1. Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote "My Country", Australia's best known poem

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As Sydney poet Dorothea Mackellar famously wrote in her 1908 poem “My Country,” ours is a sunburnt country “of droughts and flooding rains.”

From Seattle Times Jan. 31, 2020

He was widely seen as following the Australian "bush poet" tradition of Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and Dorothea Mackellar.

From BBC May 3, 2019

“I look forward to continuing to serve the people of Mackellar as their local member, the job that has always been my first responsibly despite other positions I have held within the parliament.”

From The Guardian Aug. 2, 2015

Australia, the land poet Dorothea Mackellar dubbed "a sunburnt country," suffered a torturous drought from the late 1990s through 2012.

From US News May 25, 2015

He had told her that he did not like his position with Smyth, Mackellar & Hubbard, and a classmate at Columbia had offered him a place with a railroad company down in Texas.

From Vistas of New York by Matthews, Brander

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