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Subject: obscure Leunig cartoon
Category: Arts and Entertainment > Books and Literature
Asked by: robmiles-ga
List Price: $8.00
Posted: 22 Jan 2004 19:45 PST
Expires: 21 Feb 2004 19:45 PST
Question ID: 299168
The words to Michael Leunig's cartoon (or the whole cartoon)based on
Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country". This poem is usually quoted from the
second stanza which begins "I love a sunburnt country, a land of
sweeping plains", and is an poetry landmark in Australia. The cartoon
was a spoof version which started with the words "I love a normal
country, a land of weeping drains"
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Subject: Re: obscure Leunig cartoon
From: stressedmum-ga on 24 Mar 2004 19:36 PST
 
Hi Robmiles

is this the one you're looking for? I just happened to come across it
at this site: http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~nigel/humour.html
I couldn't find the actual cartoon that goes it, unfortunately.

I love a sunburnt country:

I love a sunburnt country;
I love a cappuccino;
I love a nice, cold glass of beer;
I love a drop of pinot;
I love the aborigines;
I love the farmers too;
The trendies and conservatives,
I love them through and through

I love the multiculturals;
The Anglo-Celts as well;
The baby boomer greenies,
The good old R.S.L.;
An intellectual at a book,
A logger at a tree;
I love the whole damned lot of them
And all of them love me!

Leunig
Sydney Morning Herald, July 20, 1998
Subject: Re: obscure Leunig cartoon
From: robmiles-ga on 25 Mar 2004 16:06 PST
 
thanks 'stressedmum'. Don't know how to reply to you directly. This is
interesting, as it's a positive version. The one I'm seeking is very
black:
"Her beauty and her terror, mean nothing much to me"....

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