In a fairy tale-like novel by Murray Bail, Ellen Holland’s father promises her hand to any suitor who can name every species of this plant on his estate. For 10 points each:
[10m] What type of plant is addressed as a “fellow citizen” in a Oodgeroo Noonuccal poem? In an 1895 ballad, a man sitting under one of these plants cries “You’ll never catch me alive!”
ANSWER: eucalyptus trees [or gum trees; accept coolibah trees or coolabah trees; prompt on trees] (The poems are “Municipal Gum” and Banjo Paterson’s “Waltzing Matilda.”)
[10h] A poet with this surname wrote of peeling a eucalyptus’s bark in “Scribbly Gum.” Oblivia is rescued from a eucalyptus tree at the start of The Swan Book, a novel by a Waanyi author with this surname who wrote Carpentaria.
ANSWER: Wright [accept Alexis Wright; accept Judith Wright or Judith Arundell Wright]
[10e] This author portrayed a kitchen maid touching a gum tree for the first time during a bushfire in The Tree of Man and described the flora of the outback in Voss.
ANSWER: Patrick White [or Patrick Victor Martindale White]
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