Define Down Under?

Define Down Under?
Re "I Am Australian, So Am I" [Aug. 19]: I am Australian. One of my grandfathers was born in Prussia; the parents of one of my grandmothers were immigrants from Germany. My other grandparents were descendants of migrants from England and the Channel Islands. I admire the way Hannah Beech covered complex social changes so succinctly. It matches my recollections of the period since the 1930s, and Australia changing from a Eurocentric nation to an Asia-centric one.
Peter Anton Fopp,
West Beach, Australia

How unfortunate that...

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