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The film camera sweeps across the landscape, taking in flat plains, gushing waterfalls and a dusty country town. The color is brilliant, the emptiness palpable, and the soundtrack soars dramatically as warplanes bomb a city.
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The World War II-era romantic epic "Australia" is being hailed for its cinematography and its pairing of Aussie stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. But tourism promoters claim the real star of the movie is the country itself.
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Australia's most expensive film opens to huge fanfare in Sydney with tourism chiefs praying the country itself will emerge as the star.
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Australia tourism hopes Nicole Kidman's film will lure visitors down under.
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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- It was hot and dusty during filming in one of the world's most remote locations. But Nicole Kidman says the prospect of a smooch with Hugh Jackman eased the troubles of working on the Outback romance, "Australia."...
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Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman attend the UK premiere of epic movie Australia in London's West End.
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Watch an exclusive clip from Baz Luhrmann's epic film Australia with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
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Australia 430 ? 1935 lead India 360 by 263 runsAustralia lead India by 263 going into final morning of first Test.
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It frees up as much as $80 million to counter Sarasota's offer
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Far from trying to rid an Australian state of local crocodiles, one tourism official has said they can be a great tourist attraction. Desley Boyle, who is the state tourism minister for Cairns, insists that the animals are bringing visitors
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Director Baz Luhrmann and his stars get swept into an adventure. Baz Luhrmann has a few points to make in “ Australia,” his World War II-era romantic epic starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman: points about the mixing of genres, untold stories of the country's involvement in the war and that even in the most brutal parts of his homeland, there is soul-moving beauty.
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Tourism officials in Illinois say they expect a boost from Barack Obama's election, and they're doing what they can to capitalize on the Obama buzz.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Amid a blaze of publicity, Australia rolls out its most expensive ever movie on Tuesday, hoping the grandly named epic "Australia" will attract overseas investors to revive the local film industry and also tourists.
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Amid a blaze of publicity, Australia rolls out its most expensive ever movie on Tuesday, hoping the grandly named epic "Australia" will attract overseas investors to revive the local film industry and also tourists.
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DANIEL Craig hopes Quantum of Solace is a bigger box office hit than his good friend Nicole Kidman's movie Australia.
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The epic film of the same name may boast Hollywood stars such as Nicole Kidman, but it faces a battle to deliver for the country's tourism and business communities
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LOS ANGELES S he's changed, or something. That's her story now. She uses Lululemon words, like calm and universe. ¶ She tells Oprah (and everyone else) about going skinny-dipping in a pool beneath some Australian waterfall last year with a half-dozen other women, and how they all got pregnant within...
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Kidman wants US accent for daughter Sunday will be raised in Nashville Pictures: Australia film premiere
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Rating: 2 stars (fair) "Australia" offers everything from a cattle drive to Nicole Kidman's rendition of "Over the Rainbow" to hordes of Japanese Zeros zeroing in on screaming children during the early 1942 attack on Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory, two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The only thing missing is an iceberg.
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Wales have the best chance of any northernhemisphere team to strike a blow against the TriNations tyros.
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Showbiz Tonight's A.J. Hammer talks to Nicole Kidman about her new film "Australia."
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Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are to attend the UK premiere of epic movie Australia in London's West End.
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Tourism in the South West could benefit from the decline in the pound's value against the euro.
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At the risk of sounding stoned on hope, I offer the following heresy: The movies are fine. Sometimes they’re great; occasionally they’re magnificent.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maybe Crocodile Dundee should have starred in "Australia."
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THE man sipping his beer in the morning sunshine outside the tin-roofed "hotel", was dressed exactly as you would expect an outbacker to be dressed: wide-brimmed hat, safari shirt, tight shorts and big boots. We could not have been anywhere else but Australia. We were passing through the picturesque town of Rosewood, in rural Queensland.
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Stewart Downing submits a transfer request in an attempt to move to Spurs despite Boro's refusal to sell.
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The Tottenham Hotspur hierarchy is debating whether to abandon its director of football system altogether as the sacking of Damien Comolli becomes imminent. The Frenchman is on his way out of the club after their disastrous start to the season and there is pressure on chairman Daniel Levy not to replace Comolli when he does eventually leave.
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Left-arm paceman Zaheer Khan claimed a five-wicket haul, but not before Michael Hussey had steered Australia to a position of strength on the second day of the first Test here. Zaheer picked up three quick wickets shortly after tea as Australia were bowled out for an impressive 430.
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The Croatia coach, Slaven Bilic, fears that the crisis at Tottenham could undermine his country's bid to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Luka Modric is Bilic's key player but the £16.5m signing from Dynamo Zagreb has so far struggled to make an impact at White Hart Lane.
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MIAMI (AP) -- Helio Castroneves can leave the country for an IndyCar event this month in Australia after a federal judge agreed Friday to modify bail conditions on tax charges the driver's facing....
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India lose two early wickets on day three as they chase Australia's 430 in Bangalore.
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India close on 313-8 in reply to Australia's 430 in Bangalore on day three of the first Test.
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Financial companies are shedding tens of thousands of jobs, yet applications to graduate business schools rose this year.
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