Driving past such beautiful wet scrub on my way to work in the morning, I feel privileged to live in such a beautiful country, although as Dorothea Mackellar famously wrote, it is one of both "beauty" and "terror". While the dour skies hover over here in Sydney, bushfires have been ravaging small towns north of Melbourne. At times like this, her words are sobering and challenging, in the extreme:
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold.
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