Originally known as New Holland, Australia became an English penal colony after the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in the United States of America.

These used to be called by the British "colonies"though the "colonies" of Greece and Rome were really only garrison cities settled in foreign landsand they are now being rechristened "Dominions." Australia, for instance, is a British Dominion, and Siberia and most of Russia in Asia, a Russian Dominion.

Beginning with the crude early days, when there was land and to spare, and when labour was in demand and Australia was terra incognita to all, we find in “Paddy Malone” a fitting chronicle in rhyme.

Australia has also become a large consumer of India tea, and the loyalty with which the two great colonies of Great Britain have stood together is commendable.

I call it "Australia Is the Land for Me," and this is the way it goes: There's a land I'd like to tell you all about It's a land in the far South Sea.

When we consider that Australia is our own continent, and that now, after sixty years of occupation, we are in total ignorance of the interior, though thousands are annually spent in geographical research, it seems not unreasonable to expect that so important a question should at length be set at rest.

Australia is by no means the only country where the women are less decorated than the men.

If so, it is evident to me that Australia is the legitimate sphere of action for Mr. Micawber.

[Footnote 14: Australia is a short distance from Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land.

It's a land we'll fight for, everything that's right for Australia is the real true blue!