Bruce Knappett

Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the hardships of her new surroundings. Mother and children are determined to make a go of it.

Débarqué en Australie avec pour seul bagage une selle et un fusil, le gardien de l'ordre Matthew Quigley pense avoir été engagé pour se débarrasser d'une meute de chiens sauvages. Mais lorsqu'il découvre que le véritable but de sa mission est de "nettoyer" les terres d'un riche éleveur des aborigènes qui y vivent, Quigley refuse le contrat. Il se lance alors dans une guerre sans merci, aux côtés d'une beauté mystérieuse.

The family lives of those working on Australia's Snowy Mountains dam in the 1950s.

Eureka Stockade is a 1984 Australian miniseries based on the battle of Eureka Stockade. It reunited the producer, writer, director and star of A Town Like Alice.