The dumbest portrayal of Australia since the Simpsons

If this movie was set in the 1870s, they have some serious problems to deal with. In fact, the whole movie was rife with utter crap.

1. VERY few of the actors had an Australian accent. I heard alot of Americans, English and Irish, and only one person with an Aussie accent. The Australian accent was well and truly established by the 1870s, and the station owner (guy who plays Sherrif of Nottingham and Snape) was supposed to be (at the very least) a second generation Australian, and yet he had an English accent.

2. Stealing women from the towns? How backward do they think Australians were? If they wanted women to settle on the stations, men would either marry or hire women to work. They were not kidnapped....not white women anyway.

3. People considered themselves to be British. There was not burning resentment towards English colonial forces, because people considered themselves to be English. The only person in that movie who had any justification in hating the English was the Irish bloke, and maybe Quigley himself. Even the convicts considered themselves to be English. In the 1870s a movement towards independent federation was only just beginning and even then it was about economic and military independence - not a resentment towards British rule. Australians considered themselves to be essentially 'English' right up until the First World War.

4. They travel three days on foot away from Fremantle and are suddenly smack bang in the middle of the outback? Are they serious? The 'outback' as it is depicted in this movie is (at the ABSOLUTE LEAST) about 500km from any coastline (and at the most, 1000kms)- meaning at least a few weeks of walking. The footage in this movie actually reminded me of the center (and i've lived there) - which is at LEAST 800kms away from the coast. I would also like to know which desert they were walking through, because any station owner who tried to set up shop in the middle of an ACTUAL desert, would have failed before he even started. Cattle stations are on semi-arid land, not deserts.

5. Aborigines - they have very rigid gender codes, as well as 'secret' business that is disclosed to initiated men/women only. There is no way in hell Quigley and Cora would have been allowed to see the ceremonies, hunting tactics, etc... They would have been left with the children or very old folk. The desert people also did not play the didgeridoo, or perform coroborees as depicted in this movie. The rock art shown behind alot of the scenes is also utterly ridiculous. I'm assuming that Quigley wandered on to another Aboriginal 'nation' too, as the people who lived around the station were obviously at war with the station owner and, naturally, all white people. They wouldn't have been friendly to Quigley. The reactions of the Aborigines towards Quigley are feasable, however, if they wandered onto another nation that had had limited contact with white people and little reason to distrust or be hostile towards them. What is not feasable, however, is being able to wander accross the borders of two Aboriginal nations in the outback in a period of one day. That is some pretty fast walking.

I could bore you with the rest, but i wont.