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We’ll all be rooned

By Nick Hodge | January 21, 2007

My favourite Australian poem, "Said Hanrahan", by John O'Brian (aka Patrick Hartigan)

"...We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

This whole poem seems to epitomise the current weather conditions, farmers and a fleeting glimpse of an old Australia, slowly disappearing.

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