The ending in Australia (2008) is different from the ending in Faraway Downs (2023), the extended release version of the movie Australia. In Faraway Downs, the director's vision was to tell a different story at the end. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nichole Kidman) is determined to save her outback cattle ranch from a competing cattle baron who wants to buy her ranch. She is joined by "the drover" (Hugh Jackman) who herds her cattle to town for sale. The story of Nullah, the half blood aborigine boy, is more fleshed out in the mini series. Aboriginal children, like Native American Indians, were forcibly removed from their parents and sent to religious boarding schools to strip away their cultural identity from them. In Australia, the practice of removing these children from their families did not stop until 1973. I enjoyed this extended version very much, but preferred the happier ending of the original.
Review of Faraway Downs
