<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $130 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $211.3 million (worldwide) </Td> </Tr> <P> Australia is a 2008 Australian - British - American romantic historical adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman . It is the third - highest grossing Australian film of all time, behind Crocodile Dundee and Mad Max: Fury Road . The screenplay was written by Luhrmann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie, with Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan . The film is a character story, set between 1939 and 1942 against a dramatised backdrop of events across northern Australia at the time, such as the bombing of Darwin during World War II . Production took place in Sydney, Darwin, Kununurra, and Bowen . The film was released to cinemas on 26 November 2008 in both the United States and Australia, with subsequent worldwide release dates throughout late December 2008 and January and February 2009 . Australia received mixed reviews from critics and it earned $211.3 million on a $130 million budget . </P> <P> In 1939, Lady Sarah Ashley travels from England to northern Australia to force her philandering husband to sell his faltering cattle station, Faraway Downs . Her husband sends an independent cattle drover, called "Drover", to transport her to Faraway Downs . </P>

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