The Ireland resident and former Sydney Rose visits home in the midst of the bushfires: AUSTRALIA AS A COUNTRY MIGHT HAVE BEEN COLONISED, SHE WRITES, BUT ITS ENVIRONMENT COULD NOT BETo be an Australian means knowing that the land you love could kill you. He’d return after Boxing Day, smelling of smoke, exhausted and with a Barbie dollhouse still to assemble. The order of service for the funeral of volunteer firefighter Andrew O’Dwyer, in Horsley Park, Sydney, Australia. It just might be the first time a bride doesn’t mind rain on her wedding day. It’s the same answer found in the Dorothea Mackellar poem Australians are taught to recite monotonously at school assemblies:“I love a sunburnt country .

Source: The Irish Times January 17, 2020 15:56 UTC