Australia The Movie
After you’ve enjoyed this epic romantic action adventure you will want
to see the amazing continent of Australia for yourself. Filmed on location in Western Australia, the Northern
Territory, Queensland and New South Wales, Australia The Movie reveals the dramatic beauty and diverse scenery of this amazing country.
The rugged landscape of Western Australia’s east Kimberley region is one of the film’s featured locations. Much of the World War II action was shot in Darwin, in the Northern Territory. Other scenes were shot at Bowen on Queensland’s north coast; at Vaucluse on Sydney Harbour; and in the historic town of Camden, an outer Sydney suburb.
Whether you’d like to literally visit the locations featured in the film, or focus on the romance, adventure, and
journey like the one taken by the lead characters, or take a non-film related first-timer’s tour of Australia’s iconic
locations, we can use our extensive Australia knowledge and industry contacts to come up with the perfect itinerary for you.
• What is "Australia, The Movie?"
• Movie Release Date
• Australia Movie Inspired Itineraries
What is "Australia, The Movie?"
"Australia" is an epic romantic action adventure movie set on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she has inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world’s most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to face the bombing of the city of Darwin.
Movie Release Date
Australia is scheduled for release in the United Sales on Wednesday, November 26. Click on the trailer link in the right column for more information about the movie.
Australia Movie Inspired Itineraries
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia movie was filmed in some uniquely Australian destinations across the country from Kununurra and the Kimberley’s in Northern Western Australia to Bowen on the Queensland coast and Sydney in New South Wales portrays the beauty and diversity of Australia.
The featured itineraries below have been developed to allow you to visit, in person, the stunning landscapes featured in the film and experience your own adventure and romance. Whether you choose a traditional outback farmstay or an exhilarating abseiling challenge – Australia will change and inspire you!
Australian Romance
Welcoming Outback
Aboriginal Australia
Endless Adventure
Epic Journeys
Australian Romance
From deserted islands to vast deserts, Australia’s landscapes are the perfect backdrop for romance. You’ll find plenty of places to be alone and our skies are as limitless as love and almost as old. Ride a camel along a white beach at sunset or sleep in the treetops of a primeval rainforest. Watch the desert wake from a hot air balloon or feel the city night begin to hum from a harbourside restaurant. Meander through picturesque vineyards and sleep in luxury country retreats. Sail to palm-fringed islands and trek to mountain tops for the most romantic of views.
Dine under the desert sky as the sun sets on the Northern
Territory’s spectacular icons of Uluru and Kata Tjuta. Spend days exploring the vineyards, stone churches and galleries of South Australia’s Barossa Valley. Or combine gourmet goodness with boutique bed and breakfasts on the Poachers Trail in the countryside around Canberra. In Melbourne you can dine out in acclaimed restaurants, dance in secret bars and explore lantern-lit laneways.
Lose your breath in Tasmania’s Wineglass Bay, where dusky pink mountains, blue-green sea and white sand meet. In the Whitsundays, you can relax in resort luxury on Hayman Island, camp on the wilderness of Hook Island and walk the pure white, silica sands of Whitehaven Beach. Meander through world-class wineries fringed by tall forests and crashing surf in Western Australia’s Margaret River region. Stay on a Queensland cattle station and spend your evenings relaxing in a warm artesian spa under the stars. In Australia, your love story is wherever you want to make it.
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Welcoming Outback
You can lose and find yourself in Australia’s outback, a place where horizons stretch to eternity and people yarn forever. Out here, life is raw and limitless. It’s hard to know which is older - the mountain ranges or the timeless rhythms of Aboriginal culture. ‘Big’ means cattle stations larger than Texas and vast waterways you need to fly over to see. It’s a place where you can learn to shear sheep and muster cattle. Ride a motorbike or camel across the desert. Swap stories over the campfire or with local characters in rustic pubs. Spot crocodiles and birds, purple vegetation and black-footed rock wallabies. Swim in deep, cool waterholes and see fiery sunsets sink into the sand.
Ride a camel to Uluru at dawn and trek through the gorges of the West MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory. Take in Australia’s vast Red Centre travelling from Adelaide to Darwin on the epic Explorer’s Way. Four wheel drive the Gibb River Road from Broome to Kununurra, past Western Australia’s gorges, remote cattle stations and rugged ranges. Fly over South Australia’s Flinders Ranges and the monumental rock basin of Wilpena Pound.
Discover the ancient lunar landscapes and Aboriginal history of Lake Mungo in New South Wales. Visit the vibrant outback oasis of Mildura in Victoria. In Western Australia, you can explore the gold rush history of Kalgoorlie and the ancient ridges and ranges of the Kimberley. Hike through the heart of Tasmania’s mountain terrain on the Overland Track from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair. Discover the world’s best-preserved dinosaur stampede near Winton in Queensland. Here in these wide, open spaces, a new adventure awaits you at every turn.
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Aboriginal Australia
You’ll transcend your five senses when you see Australia through the eyes of its first inhabitants. For Aboriginal people, ‘country’ is not just a collection of hills, cliffs, creeks, rock outcrops and waterholes. It is a magical network of land and living things, elements and seasons, Dreamtime stories, spirits and songs.
This is the land that Aboriginal people have lived in harmony with for more than 50,000 years. Every river, tree, mountain, star and sandy hill was shaped by a spirit ancestor during the Dreamtime of the world’s creation. Listen to these stories and you’ll begin to understand the birth of our land, its cragginess, spirituality and mystery. Visit the sacred places and feel your own sense of wonder come alive.
Trace the path of spirit ancestors as you walk around
the base of Uluru with an Anangu guide. Learn about the intricate system of life they created in the rock art of World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park. See Ngunawal campsites dating back to the last Ice Age in Namadgi National Park. Go walkabout and see bark and body painting in the Blue Mountains, just outside of Sydney.
Hear Adnyamathanha creation stories over the campfire in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges. Trace Aboriginal trading routes more than 18,000 years old in Victoria’s Gippsland. Fish, snorkel and hunt for mud crabs with the Aboriginal communities of Western Australia’s Dampier Peninsula. Traverse the treetops with the Wujal Wujal people in Queensland’s primeval, magical Daintree Rainforest. Discover your own story in amongst this ancient, living story of creation.
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Endless Adventure
You might have forgotten that life is one big adventure. When you get to Australia you’ll remember. It could be the endless horizons, red soil and rugged bush scenery of the outback. Or the smell of damp earth in a rainforest that is thousands of years old. Anything seems possible when you stand on the edge of our wild and windswept cliffs or cruise through the towering sandstone walls of an ancient gorge.
Hit the ski slopes or cycle, raft, horse ride and hike in the Australian Alps. Four wheel drive to ancient gorges, sprawling cattle stations and the Fitzroy River on Western Australia’s Gibb River Road. Or drive the sandy tracks of Fraser Island to inland lakes and luscious rainforest. Sleep under the stars in our Red Centre or underground in South Australia’s opal mining town of Coober Pedy.
Trek the ancient mountain ranges of Victoria’s Grampians. Or walk for days in Tasmania’s World-Heritage-listed wilderness and white water raft along the wild Franklin River. Snorkel and dive Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, a living masterpiece so big it can be seen from outer space. In Western Australia, you can go boating down vast Lake Argyle and take a doorless chopper over the beehive-shaped towers of the Bungle Bungle ranges. Go mountain biking and horseriding past sandstone cliffs, canyons, waterfalls and bushland in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. In Australia’s Northern Territory you can ride a motor bike across the rolling sand dunes of the Simpson Desert and soar over Kings Canyon on a scenic flight. In Australia, just being part of this boundless wilderness is an adventure in itself.
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Epic Journeys
When it comes to journeys, the most powerful are the ones that bring you a little closer to yourself. Against Australia’s vast, timeless landscapes you can choose your route.
Follow the Aboriginal Australians, who for thousands of years have crossed this country using song-maps of ancient Dreamtime tracks. These songlines trace the path of heroic spirit ancestors, linking waterholes, food sources and sacred land tracts. They are invisible threads to the Dreamtime and a way for Aboriginal people to continually see themselves and their world afresh.
Wherever or however you travel in Australia, you can capture
this same sense of wonder and wisdom. See whales, monster waves, national parks and the Twelve Apostles on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road. Or journey into your own interior as you drive around Australia’s Red Centre. Take the classic Indian-Pacific rail trip from Sydney to Perth. Or hop on the legendary Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin, past red desert and the tropical Top End.
Trek Tasmania’s famous 65-kilometre Overland Track or hike from the Flinders Ranges to the coast on South Australia’s Heysen Trail. Go 'walkabout' in our cities, discovering their galleries, gardens and waterways and soaking up their history. Learn to sail in the Whitsundays or take a luxury cruise through the remote Kimberley Ranges. Make your way up the Murray River on a slow-moving houseboat or cruise Sydney Harbour at sunset.
In Australia it doesn’t matter where you arrive or how far you go. What’s important is how much you change along the way.
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