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119 Cards in this Set
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When was the first film projected in Australian?
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1896
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What is the best known of the Limelight Dep't films?
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Soldiers of the Cross
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What film was Australia's first feature film?
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The Story of the Kelly Gang
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What was the "combine"?
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Merger that ended the competitive environment between distributors, exhibitioners, Australian films, and the union.
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When were bushranging films banned in NSW?
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1938
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Which Longford film was the earliest Australian feature to be regarded as a classic?
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A Sentimental Bloke
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Who directed Errol Flynn in his first film?
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Chauvel
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Who was the male movie star of many of Charles Chauvel's films?
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Raffatey
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Waht law did the Postmaster-General impose in January 1961?
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All TV commericals must be of Australian origin.
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What year was federal support for film introduced in Australia?
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1968
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What makes a person Australian?
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Citizenship/must have an Australian passport.
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According to Benedict Arnold, what links the citizens of a nation?
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A common imaginary
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What does ANZAC refer to?
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Australia New Zealand Army Core
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What is the greatest issue with the image of the Australian male in nationalistic stories?
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They are percieved as being rugged outback men when really 89% of Australians live by the beach.
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Australia being a young society is under endowed with what kind of mythology?
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The myth of belonging
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How do Australians view the outback?
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As wild and untamed.
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When do national cinemas come to the forefront?
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In times of social crisis or corruption
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Who were the key writers of the Bulletin School?
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Henry Lawson & Banjo Patterson
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How id the egaltarian ideal benefit the country?
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It allowed for no social hierarchy so people could establish themselves within society without having been born into a high-status family.
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The Australian ethos believes in a fair go, but...
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No one gets a free ride.
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Why is Australia considered the "Lucky Country?"
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It has climatic and social warmth.
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According to Ekner, what unique Australian concept is consistent in the suburbs and the outback?
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The concept of "make-ship"
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According to Dusan Makavejev, living in the 20th century means...
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...Learning to live like an American.
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What Australian director directed Breaker Morant?
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Bruce Berresford
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What are two of the six charges brought against Harry Morant, Hancock & Witton?
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Murder & Killing a Prisoner of War
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The outback woman is seen as being more what?
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Pure
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According to Mast, unlike literature, film offers us what kind of experience?
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Sensuous Metaphor
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What percentage of box office grosses in Australia come from local product?
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5%-7%
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Who directed Lantana?
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Ray Lawrence
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What percentage of Austalian troops died at Gallipoli?
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Approx. 12.5%
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What do the two lead characters in Gallilopi symbolize?
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Arty: inexperience of the nation
Frank: self-reliance of the nation |
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Historically Australia has been depicted as a male-dominated _______ society.
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Homosocial
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What is the common image of indiginous people in Australian films?
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Black Tracker
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In which speech did the Australian PM acknoledge the negative effects whites had on aborigines?
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Red Fern Park Speech
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Where was Eddie Mabo from?
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Torres Strait Islands
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What is terra nullius?
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"The land belongs to nobody"
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The term "Mabo" according to Jeremy Beckett stands for...
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Land rights
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How can you make Australians embrace reconciliation?
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By making them feel personally touched
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Dominant narratives presume Australians to be of what heritage?
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British
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When analyzing racism, the most important dynamic to consider is ____?
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Power.
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Ethnic male groups who feel powerless in society often attempt to level the scales through what?
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Violence.
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What non-British and non-indiginous group was vilified first in Australia?
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Chinese
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Why was there a paranoid edge to the White Australia philosophy?
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They felt isolated from the world and wanted more of their kind.
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What were the two reasons displaced South Vietnamese immigrated to Australia in the 1970s?
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1) They were allies in the war
2) Australia wanted to be more multicultural so they encouraged them to come. |
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What ethnicities does the campaign "We Are All Boat People" leave out?
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Aboriginies
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What is the natural tendency of mgrants when it comes to settlement patterns?
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Group together in certain areas of the city.
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Who is most aware of the representational Australian codes?
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Those who don't fit the national image.
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What was the name of the government inquiry that "Rabbit Proof Fence" is a response to?
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"Bringing Them Home"
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How far do the girls walk in the film?
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1250 miles = 2000 kilometers
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What percentage of aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families?
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10-30%
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Campaigners against the "Stolen Generations" claims argue that the witnesses' testimnoies are_____?
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The witnesses had distant memories and recieved sympathetic reimbursements from the government.
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Why does Ackerman believe that the film fails as a work of history?
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Because it triggers an emotional response rather than a historical response.
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Why did Noyce take a Hollywood stylistic approach to his making of Rabbit Proof Fence?
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So people would go see it.
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What two elements does Susan Dermody see in the lost children films?
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1) A quest that must be fulfilled through physical challenges
2) Idealists take the journey |
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Pierce argues that the lost children symbolically represent what?
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Anxieties of European settles from being so far away from their familiar landscapes.
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The aboriginal children, although more connected to the land, must return home because the land around the Moore River settlement is doing what to Molly?
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Making her physically ill.
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What does Molly hear that calls her home?
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Women singing
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Who directed Rabbit Proof Fence?
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Philip Noyce
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Who was Mr. O.A. Neville?
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Chief Protector of aboriginies
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How is O.A. Neville depicted in the film?
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As paternal and racist.
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What year was the film Rabbit Proof Fence set in?
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1931
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What are the names of the 3 aboriginal girls depicted in Rabbit Proof Fence?
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Molly, Daisy, Gracie
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Who wrote the book?
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The daughter of one of the characters wrote her mother's story down
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What is the term used for the quarter-caste and half-caste aboriginal children who were removed from their mothers?
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Stolen Generation
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When did this policy stop being in effect?
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1970s.
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The aboriginal powers of culture, native, native education, and survival skills are seen as inferior to which well-established powers of the white empire builders?
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Law, civilization, society, inferior to British way of thinking, belong to Earth.
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In Australian culture today why is there a wish from non-indigenous people for indigenous people to be in the national stories
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How do non-indiginous cultures use indiginous cultures?
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What was the first genre of Australian film to make a foothold in the 1970s?
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What is an Ocker comedy?
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a
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Period films often had what type of person as a central character?
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In the 1980s how did Australian Cinema shift?
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What was the fundamental difference between Mad Max & its sequel?
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What is the one topic Australian film makers failed to address effectively in the 1970s and 1980s?
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How is casting key to "Adventure of Priscilla"'s success?
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Why does a film like Priscilla get such a huge response from the gay community?
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According to Scott Murray, what are the two contradictory forces at work in Australian cinema?
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Who sang "I still call Australia home"?
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What Midnight Oil song had a huge influence on the fight for indiginous land rights?
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What function does indiginous music play in indiginous communities?
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Prior to Australia's Film Renaissance, what was the Australian government's attitude about the arts?
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Which Prime Minister began to reverse the trend of foreign ownership?
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What was the intent of the Experimental Film Fund?
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What was Gough Whitlan's campaign slogan?
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Which Broadway performer appears in Barry MacKenzie Holds His Own?
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Who plays the father in "The Sum of Us"?
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"The Sum of Us" exhibits what familiar traits that are distinctive to Australia's national cinema?
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Philip Adams proposed that Australians needed to what to Gorton?
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What do many non-indiginous Australians imagine the interior of Australia to contain?
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In modern Australian culture when women experience loss in the Outback, they are depicted as...?
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Why was Antartica truly terra nullius?
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There is a tension in Australia as recognizing the land as beautiful but also...
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What was the name of the river that the Hawke government promised to save in the early 1980s and consequently won a federal election?
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Who directed Strictly Ballroom?
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What was the budget for the production "Strictly Ballroom"?
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How is the film the anti-thesis to the Outback image of Australia?
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What award did "Strictly Ballroom" win at Cannes?
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How is Fran's world different from the rest of the characters' in "Strictly Ballroom"?
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How are men depicted in "Strictly Ballroom"?
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What day is Australia Day?
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January 26th
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What is ANZAC Spirit?
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The sense of the Aussie Digger (soldier) combining forces and through their mateship SURVIVING a harrowing experience
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What did Prime Minster John Howard refuse to do for the indiginous population?
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Make a formal apology on behalf of the government
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What year was the Aboriginal Year of Mourning?
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1988
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Who wrote/directed "Not Quite Hollywood"?
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Mark Hartley
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How long did it take to make "Not Quite Hollywood"?
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Five years
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Who did Tarantino dedicate "Kill Bill" to?
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Brian Trenchard-Smith
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What was the name of the 1983 film about the exploits of two kids, and their friend Judy (Nicole Kidman), after stumbling upon a box of police-band walkie talkies?
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BMX Bandits
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What famous Australian bushranger did Dennis Hopper play in the 1976 film of the same title?
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Mad Dog Morgan
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What two Australian annual rituals does the government support financially?
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Anzac Day
Australia Day |
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What year did the Gurindii walkout happen?
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1966
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Although seen as a celebration of Gay Pride the G&L Mardi Gras is actually?
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A protest parade against discrimination
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What percentage of Australians watch a sport regularly?
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75%
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When we see the term Australian attached to a team, who is excluded without further investigation?
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Women
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Who directed "The Castle"?
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Rob Stitch
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What year was "The Castle" made?
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1997
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The Castle depicts what iconic Australian figure?
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The Aussie Battler
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Australians enjoy the highest rate of what in the world?
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Home Ownership
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What key court cases does the QC draw on in the Kerrigan's defense?
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Mabo
Franklin River Dam |
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What communal values do sports players and the Australian ethos share?
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Selflessness & sacrifice
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