On Father's Day, I watched the movie Australia with my dad. I had always wanted to watch this movie, (except I thought it was a musical, I was way off) it did take me a little while to get into it, but I ended up really enjoying the movie. It was a very complex movie and at times hard to follow - and understand (Australian accents can be a bit difficult) - and the movie had comedy, romance, and action. It was also emotional at times. And Hugh Jackman is definite eye candy. Now I don't want to give anything away so if you haven't watched the movie this might spoil some of the plot. One of the main characters is a half Aborigine/half white child, and he is sent to an island called Mission Island, along with many other interracial children. After my race and ethnicity class this past spring, I began to wonder if this really happened and if all those children were actually shipped out of Australia. I mean it seemed like a pretty harsh action. So I googled mission island and I found a really interesting article. If you have seen the movie and want to learn what I found out, here's the link:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/an-aussie-love-story-that-strays-far-from-fact/2008/12/09/1228584832870.html
Hope you find this as interesting as I did :)
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