Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar (1 July 1885 – 14 January 1968) was an Australianpoet and fiction writer. Her poem "My Country" is widely known in Australia, especially its second stanza, which begins: "I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains, / Of ragged mountain ranges, / Of droughts and flooding rains."
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