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In November 1948, 20th Century-Fox announced they wanted to make a films set in Australia at the turn of the century, called The Australian Story. It would be based on an original story by Martin Berkeley and produced by Robert Bassler. The film would be made using Fox funds "frozen" by the Australian government under post-war currency ...
The Emu War (or Great Emu War) [2] was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in Australia over the later part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, said to be destroying crops in the Campion district within the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.
This is a list of films set in Australia ... The Movie (2007) Adam's Woman ... Crimes at the Dark House (1940) Crocodile Dundee ...
Maya the Bee Movie (2014) – starring Jacki Weaver, Richard Roxburgh, Noah Taylor, Miriam Margolyes, Justine Clarke, Coco Jack Gillies and Kodi Smit-McPhee; Son of a Gun (2014) Still Flowin': The Movie (2014) – written and directed by R.A.E.D; Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) – won six Academy Awards, the most ever for an Australian film; Drown ...
Kangaroos are seen as the icon of Australia, and the marsupial is featured in everything from tourism advertisements, sports teams, and Qantas, the national airline of Australia. The crux of the documentary is to shed light on the dark and violent truth that lies within the commercial kangaroo industry, and highlights the culling of the icon.
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This article is part of a series on the: Cinema of Australia; List of Australian films: Australian Animation; Early years and the Silent film era; pre 1910
The report argued that the Commonwealth Government was guilty of the crime of genocide; under the UN Convention defining genocide as "intentional destruction of a racial, religious, national, or ethnic group". [86] Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87]