Australia By Baz Luhrmann Belonging

Films, as a medium, often contain setting and characters that provide information about what countries are like at a particular time. This is achieved by the film Australia(2008), directed by Baz Luhrmann, which concerns an English Aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who travels to Faraway Downs, a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia, during the Second World War. The term Stolen Generation is defined as many mixed-race people aboriginal who were forced to be removed from their families as children and were relocated to church missions from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s who were then sent to institutions or white family fosters. The film demonstrates, that during the Second World War, Australia was a place where the cattle

Those that were depicted in the film had an outback lifestyle and possessed many Australian stereotypical traits, such as being “practical, inventive and good at improvising” and well as “sticking by their mates through thick and thin.” The Drover, for example, illustrates a fearless, tough on the edges and masculine character. Many traits are seen in some of the scenes, an example of some of these traits in action would be when the Drover is arguing with a Carney Stockman and Ivan the Bartender. 'Any of you other Carney boys want to have a go?' Drover raises his beer mug and puts it on the bar table. 'Come on, fellas. Don't let fear stand in your way.' These lines of dialogue emphasise the fearlessness of the Drover, a typical trait for men in the set time of film. Another example of how the cattle business is a unrelenting industry, especially for Drovers and their stockmen, is the Never-Never Land. The Never-Never is depicted as a environmental obstacle during the film and is seen as a place where 'Where the Dead Men Lie' according to a poem by Barcroft Boake. This puts an emphasis on the environment's nature and the merciless life of a stockman. Through the use of character and setting, the film demonstrates that Australia,

The Australian government and general society, held a discrimination and prejudicial view towards aboriginal and specifically half castes, due to their different skin colour. An example of how much Nullah was discriminated can be seen when Nullah has just started his own walkabout but the 'coppers' catch him and transport him to Mission Island, a facility just off Darwin.
This emphasises that the government had a lot of inequity towards mixed-race aboriginals and thought that children like Nullah do not understand christianity and proposed to remove them from their families and relocate them as domestic servants, which is racist. Another character by the name of Neil Fletcher, was the main antagonist of the film and had heavy discriminated mixed-race aboriginals. Neil is depicted as a strong stockman, much like the Drover, however, Neil often calls Nullah a 'creamy,' demonstrating that Neil despises children like Nullah. The viewer is encouraged to think, that during the time of removal, Australia as a whole was committing a crime, by mistreating the Indigenous people, particularly the half castes brutally, which is portrayed mainly through characterisation of Nullah and Neil