Indonesian student declaims Dorothea Mackellar’s ‘My Country’ in Indonesian.

Nita Novianti, a lecturer of English and Indonesian as a Foreign Language, current PhD student at the University of Tasmania and winner of the 2019 National Australia Indonesia Language Awards (NAILA) in the Wildcard category, talks about translating and declaiming in Indonesian, Dorothy Mackellar’s “My Country,” as her entry.

Nita (wearing hijab) with the other NAILA 2019 Awards Award recipients posing for a photo after the award ceremony, Melb 6 Dec 2019. Source: Courtesy: SCW.

Nita Novianti with her husband and children at NAILA 2019 Awards evening in Melbourne, 6 Dec 2019. Source: Courtesy: SCW.

Why does Nita Novianti believe the old Australian poem ‘My Country’ is still relevant to today’s Australia?  What did she learn through her experience with Australian literature?  Nita Novianti explains.

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