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Australia to lure tourists with outback epic
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-18 09:26  A promotional handout photo shows Hugh Jackman (left) and Nicole Kidman in the upcoming movie Australia released yesterday.[Agencies]
An epic Australian outback movie starring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman will spearhead a new tourism campaign designed to recapture the country's "mojo" and lure more visitors Down Under. Titled Australia and directed by flamboyant home-grown director Baz Luhrmann, the A$130 million ($122 million) film follows an English aristocrat (Kidman) who inherits a sprawling property and falls in love with a rugged drover (Jackman). With sweeping Outback scenery and set in northern Australia on the eve of World War Two, Australia will see Kidman and Jackman take 2,000 cattle overland and caught in the wartime bombing of Darwin by the Japanese. "This movie will potentially be seen by tens of millions of people and it will bring to life little-known aspects of Australia's extraordinary natural environment, history, and indigenous culture," Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson said at the weekend. |
