Even though I am not a big fan of far destinations, I must addmit that if you want to enjoy a better travel, you probably need to get out of our country, I would say...In 2005, acclaimed Australian film director Baz Luhrmann donned an Akubra (that’s a kind of Aussie slouch hat) and drizabone (and that’s Aussie for riding coat) and saddled up for The Great Australian Cattle Drive, joining a team of drovers and enthusiastic city slickers to push 500 head of cattle down South Australia’s dusty Birdsville Track. The golden sunrises, the stark saltbush plains and the crack of the stockwhip clearly worked its magic—inspired by the experience, Luhrmann returned to his Sydney base to pen a new script, simply entitled "Australia".
Starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and set for worldwide release in November 2008, this epic Outback romance—the most expensive Australian movie ever made—is also the most anticipated local film in history, what Luhrmann himself calls “the Olympics of cinema.”
It’s an appropriate metaphor on many levels—in fact, Tourism Australia is pinning a whole marketing campaign on the film’s release, anticipating that it will capture what was last achieved during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games: global attention.
