Northern Territory

Stark barren red island Rising out of sea like sand Changing colours reflecting The heat and sun parched land The shadows cast by the Olgas Beneath a rainbow sky Land eternal revolving Interchanging wet and dry Like a speck of sand in time Are the prints of all of man Ancient land of cycads The hot dry breezes fan A pitiless barren country Giving birth to evergreen Ghost gums like sentinels On solitary escarpments wean Kakadu and Katherine And the emblem kangaroo Solitude, the Dreamtime And the sacred Uluru Heart of this my country Pulsating barren land Land of “Never Never” This Northern Wonderland