String not working as expected

Excel 2007
I have a VBA procedure for checking a selection (Country) to determine an action.
Under Option Explicit I have declared Public strCountry as String.
As part of the procedure I am asking "If strCountry is XYZ Then Do this (etc). If not do something else.
For some reason within the procedure I am able to identify the user section, but unable to use it in a call to action.
For example, under a Public Function:
In the subject worksheet the user has selected "Australia" (without the quotes.)

strCountry = Worksheets("1-REVENUES").Range("lstCountry").Value
Msgbox strCountry '[returns "Australia" (without the quotes)]
MsgBox Worksheets("1-REVENUES").Range("lstCountry").Value '[returns "Australia" (without the quotes)]
MsgBox strCountry = Worksheets("1-REVENUES").Range("lstCountry").Value '[returns FALSE] ??

The following (paraphrased)
If strCountry = "Australia" Then
[Do This]
End If
[Do something else]

results in [Do something else].

Why is the call not recognising the string "Australia"?? (or any other string for that matter)

Any help appreciated.

Hi,

It would probably help to see a sample workbook that demonstrates this problem.

Dom

If this is not a typo:

I

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It will ALWAYS do something else because it's not inside the "If...End If"

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I don't see anything wrong that would produce "False". I would conclude that you typed something wrong, but I would have to see the workbook to be sure.

Thanks for the responses.
I have resolved the issue.
I omitted to include an Option Compare statement (Text) at the beginning of the module.
That seems to have fixed the problem.