Tag: Floods
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A Land of Droughts and Flooding Rains
POLITICS and CURENT AFFAIRS Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2022 Dorothea Mackellar wrote the poem My Country in 1908, from which the lines here – surely the most quoted – are taken: I love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.I love her far horizons,I love her jewel-sea,Her beauty and…