G’day Mate

November 23rd, 2006

Welcome to the very first website dedicated to the Baz Luhrmann film simply entitled, Australia.

As you can tell just by the very creation of this website months before production has even begun, there are a lot of people eagerly anticipating this motion picture. Three of those people happen to be working on this website, vampvan, IgotEwbabe and rougevelvet. All togther you have an Aussie expat., an American and a current Australian resident. We have been following the ‘progress’ of the screenplay into a film for years and are thrilled that it finally is all coming together; first with the announcement of two great A-list Aussie actors, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, but now it also finally has a title!

A name, what’s in a name? Why choose such a title for a film? It’s a country name, hardly inspiring or memorable, you may say. Well, at first glance one could argue you’d be right, but Mr. Luhrmann certainly does have the ability of using his words and stories to help us see things his way…

“I’m taking the perspective of the rest of the world to this film how they might view Australia,” Luhrmann said. “When you say Casablanca or Oklahoma! it means big. It means vast … I’m not saying this film is Australia. It’s a metaphor for a state of mind, for the faraway…”

This is definitely going to live up to its previous untitled status of, The Australian Epic. One look at the first verse to the Australian national anthem and you can just feel the rich colours and scenery that Baz has envisioned to showcase to the rest of the world.

So with that in mind, we hope you too have a thirst for information on this movie and we aim to be your #1 stop for all print news, media, videos and more!

Also if you’d like to join in discussion and perhaps end up contributing to the site, why not drop by our Australia forum?!

Hoo Roo! (Um, that would be Australian for ‘good bye’ )

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