Judith Wright is commonly regarded as Australia's greatest twentieth century female poet. She was born on her father's station property at Wallamumbi in New South Wales in 1915 and even attended the University of Sydney, where she graduated with a BA in 1936. Between then and the outbreak of the Second World War she was in various secretarial jobs all while continuing to write. However, it wasn’t until her return to Wallamumbi that brought home to …showed first 75 words of 521 total…

…showed last 75 words of 521 total…In contrast, one is able to see the mother embodying another common Australian theme and saying of “no worries.” It may be a very dark side of the phrase but yet it proves the mother’s thinking that everything will be all right. Worth noting too is the poet's prayer for her great-great grandmother's “firmness”: it seems clear, from the dispassionate way in which she describes the grizzly scene, that her prayer has been granted.