It’s not the size that matters most in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, it’s the many details, the intimate, personal moments, the connection with and respect for the Aboriginal culture in the context of human interaction, and the evil that greed makes men callously do. But that’s not to dismiss the gloriously dramatic landscape that Mandy Walker captures with great finesse, nor the sweep of the story over two important years, up to the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese.