So many "critics" said so many ineptness, that I am tempted to restrict my appreciation merely to the "summary". I enormously enjoyed "Australia", I highly appreciated the references to "Over the Rainbow", "Begin the Beguine" (and even an almost inaudible "Tuxedo Junction"). I was supposed to emigrate to Australia in 1950 but hesitated, fearing that big continent was to big and too far away for me. I don't regret it, but WOW, what a surprise to discover the "immensity". The movie remembered me of another Fletcher (Christian, the head of the Bounty Mutiny), who should have better end up in Australia than in Pitcairn... Now that you have your ten lines, I hope you'll accept this contribution from harry carasso, Paris, France.