Australia Day 2025 – Made in Australia
Australia Day is not just celebrating being Australian but appreciating the slogan “Made in Australia”. We are a nation of inventors, ingenuity, and above all larrikinism. We laugh at ourselves. We are accepting of people who can laugh at themselves. People of all background cultures are welcomed into our society when they produce comedians who laugh at their own. It allows Australians to understand other Australians, whether they originate from overseas or are the long-term residents of the first nation peoples. We have a country that have freedoms that people yearn for. These freedoms were hard fought for and many sacrificed their lives for it. Lest we forget.
Now for Made in Australia
Crocodile Dundee & Paul Hogan “Hoges”.
The inspiration of Crocodile Dundee was based on Rodney William Ansell who was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Territory, and the story of his survival for 56 days with limited supplies became news headlines around the world. Consequently, he served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan’s character, Mick Dundee, in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee.
Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 action-comedy film set in the Australian Outback and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee and American actress Linda Kozlowski as reporter Sue Charlton. The film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon.
Released on 30 April 1986 in Australia, and on 26 September in the United States, it still is the highest-grossing Australian film worldwide. The film was a sleeper hit, grossing US$328 million.
Although Crocodile Dundee was a hit both in Australia and abroad, it became controversial with some Australian critics and audiences who resented the image of Australians as being ocker, however, despite that there has been no better ad for Australia than this movie.
So, this “Made in Australia” film, put our country on the tourist map as a sought-after destination. Our produce and products came into focus on the world stage.
This time the movie showing at the Open Air Cinema at the Sydney Botanical Garden’s Harbour foreshore was Crocodile Dundee – The Encore Cut, celebrating 40 years since its release.
Not only we’re we celebrating the movie, but the man himself, Paul Hogan, who played Mike Dundee, was there. He wrote the story and become an icon.
The movie showing off the vastness of the Australia to the world, as well as its natural beauty as seen below.
Paul Hogan, also known as “Hoges”, made commercials for the Australian government, to showcase our country with “come over and say G’day, and we’ll throw another shrimp (prawn) on the BBQ for you.” (That’s my memory paraphrasing it!). It was a hit!
Australia is a very unique place in the world, with its landscape, flora and fauna, produce, humour and its people of many backgrounds, enjoying its many hard fought, freedoms.
“We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come
We’ll share a dream and sing with one voice
“I am, you are, we are Australian”
We have all been by “Made” by this land of Australia, Lest we forget.
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