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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In 1987, three American country legends came together to record an album. Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt ...

A commentator has claimed many Aussies have completely misunderstood the meaning behind the well-known phrase: 'the lucky country'. The term was coined by author Donald Horne in his 1964 book of the ...