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Australia (Characters (Lady Sarah Ashley (She flies to Australia to check…
Australia
Characters
Lady Sarah Ashley
She flies to Australia to check on her man, and find out that he is dead. she takes over the cattle station called Faraway Downs. She is unable to have children. She fall in love with drover and they drive faraway downs together. She takes care of Nullah
Lady Sarah Ashleys man
he get's murdered before Lady Ashley arrive. in the start of the movie he gets killed with a spire right in front of Nullah. King George is accused for killing him, but it is fletcher that kills him.
Drover
the drover that picks up Lady Ashley. The other whites doesn't like him that much because he is friend with the Aboriginal, and he speaks the language. He was married to a woman before but she died because of her race, the hospital wouldn't treath her
Nullah
the aboriginal little boy. He has some magic powers with animals. He kind of calms them down. The horse in the beginning of the film, and the cattels. Nullah is going on a Walkabout with King George, but is instead taken by the authorites and sent to live on Mission Island with the other half aboriginal kids.
King George
he is acused for murdering Lady Sarah Ashleys man. On the way trough the Never Nevr dessert, he sing and try to help Lady Ashley and the other people trough the dessert. He wears aboriginal clothes and spears. When he sing we hear a didgerido playing.
Niel Fletcher
He is a bay guy. He try to sabotage for Lady Ashley and the people on Faraway Downs. He kills Carney and take over Carney's land. He marries Carneys daughter. He become the new king. He is the real father of Nullah.
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Carney
The owner of Carney's land. He is the king. He gets killed by fletcher. A aligator kills him, because Fletcher push him in the water.
Nullah's mother
She drowns in the water tank, because she and Nullah are hiding from the authorities
The setting
Northern Australia
It is really dry in Australia, until it starts to rain
The Aboriginals are oppressed, very few of them are wearing traditional clothes. They use clothes like english mens.
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Themes
Racism
For example on Faraway Downs, the Aboriginals are servants for the white people.
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The Story about Drovers ex wife who was refused medicine at the hospital when she got sick, because she was black
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Love
It is love between Lady Ashley and Drover, Lady Ashley and Nullah and Nullah and KIng George for example
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Loneliness
Nullah feel Lonely when his mother dies, but Lady Ashley take care of him
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Plot
In 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley travels from England to northern Australia to force her husband to sell his cattle station, Faraway Downs. Her husband sends an independent cattle drover, called Drover, to transport her to Faraway Downs.
Lady Sarah's husband is murdered shortly before she arrives, and the authorities tell her that the killer is King George. Meanwhile, cattle station manager Neil Fletcher is trying to gain control of Faraway Downs, so that Carney will have a cattle monopoly.
The childless Lady Sarah is taken by the boy Nullah, whoo has an Aboriginal mother and a white father. Nullah tells her that he has seen her cattle being driven onto Carney's land. Because of this Fletcher mistreats Nullah and threatens him and his mother, so Lady Sarah fires Fletcher and decides to try to run the cattle station herself. When Nullah and his mother hide from the authorities in a water tower, his mother drowns. Lady Sarah comforts Nullah by singing the song "Over the Rainbow". Nullah tells her that King George is like the Wizard, he too is a "magic man".
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The trip to Darwin
Fletcher and his mens are trying to sabotage for Lady Ashley. They try to drive the cattels over a cliff and they poisson the water. Flynn dies, and Nullah manage to stop them from running out of the cliff
Lady Ashley and the cattels have to go trough the never never dessert because of the poissoned water. King George guides them trough the dessert while he is singing.
When the arrive Darwin they have to get the cattels on the boat before Carney's cettels get on. They manage to do this and a lot of people become happy
The Stolen Generations
Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies.
Children taken from their parents as part of the Stolen Generation were taught to reject their Indigenous heritage, and forced to adopt white culture.
Living conditions in the institutions were highly controlled, and children were frequently punished harshly, were cold and hungry and received minimal if any affection.
The two cattle farms
Faraway Downs
Is owned by Lady Ashleys man but he dies, so Lady Ashley takes over the cattle farm
Carney's land
Carney owns this cattle farm, and he is the king, but Fletcher kills him, and Fletcher becomes the new king.
Releationship
Lady Ashley and Drover
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On the ball drover shows up and Lady Ashley and drover dans together, and they kiss when it starts to rain.
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Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia
242 Japanese aircrafts attacked the town,ships in Darwin's harbour and the town's two airfields