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Australia is a continent-sized island where most people live on the coast and the centre is dry desert. Its start as a penal colony in 1788, followed by gold rushes in the 1850s, drew migrants from far away and left fiction about newcomers tested by heat and distance. That pressure runs through entries such as Lion and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Open Australia on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 380 books, 710 movies, 19 TV shows and 35 games set in Australia.

Finding Nemo
Nemo an adventurous young clownfish is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home…

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
As the world fell young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel…

Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later he sets out to find his lost…

The Fall Guy
Fresh off an almost career-ending accident stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.

Mary and Max
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary a lonely eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne and Max a forty-four-year old severely obese man living in New York.

Mad Max 2
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot…

Back to the Outback
Tired of being locked in a reptile house where humans gawk at them like they are monsters a ragtag group of Australia’s deadliest creatures plot an escape from their zoo to the Outback a place where they’ll fit in…

I, Daniel Blake
A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

The Babadook
A single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Pacific Rim: Uprising
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human…
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Early Australia (1788–1890) — From 1788 to the late 19th century, Australia's story unfolds across penal settlements, frontier towns, and Indigenous cultures facing change — convict tales, pioneering spirit, exploration, and early regional identities. Explore Early Australia
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