Baz Luhrmann

Large-scale industrial plans threaten to divide Bowen, the sleepy north Queensland coastal town chosen by Baz Luhrmann to film much of his blockbuster movie Australia.

Artful director, writer, and producer Baz Luhrmann’s ode to his Motherland has finally arrived, and it was worth the wait. Australia is an ambitious epic that takes place in the remote port city of Darwin and its rugged surrounding outback lands in the period just before World War II.