Dorothea MacKellar — the girl who wrote poems and broke all the rules

Dorothea MacKellar — the girl who wrote poems and broke all the rules

By ABC listen

Dorothea loved to write. So much, that she would write stories and poems in her own secret code. She had a passion for the beauty of the Australian landscape, and her poetry was so good that people all over the world read it. Dorothea wrote one of Australia's most famous poems — My Country.

Written and narrated by nine-year-old Amalia MacKellar.

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