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Sunday Too Far Away at 50: how a story about Aussie shearers launched a local film industry

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par Michael Walsh, Associate Professor, Screen and Media, Flinders University

Released 50 years ago, Sunday Too Far Away deals episodically with a group of shearers led by Foley (Jack Thompson), and the events leading up to the national shearers’ strike of 1956.

The shearers are a ragtag group held together by rum, unionism and competitiveness – as Foley must deal with the camp cook from hell, as well as a threat to his “gun” status.

As we celebrate the anniversary, it is hard to overstate its importance for the Australian…

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