Australian Western

[1] Cattle ranches and vast tracts of land are both similar themes, being borrowed from US Westerns and used in Australia, in particular the movie The Overlanders (1946).

[9][10] Grayson Cooke attributes the first use of the term "meat-pie Western" to Eric Reade in his History and Heartburn (1979),[11] referring to Russell Hagg's Raw Deal (1977).

She refers to the work of Cooke and other writers, paraphrasing Peter Limbrick's view that the Western is basically "about societies making sense of imperial-colonial relationships", and considers the parallels between American and Australian histories.

[a] Johnson said "We really feel it's a film that immerses the audience in a time and place and that perhaps hasn't happened in this way before", and producer Witiyana Marika called it a "northern action thriller".

The feature fiction film is based on many stories of the First Nations people of Arnhem Land that are not told in the history books.

[9][13][14] Films in the Western genre continued to be made through the rest of the 20th century, many with Hollywood collaboration (such as Rangle River based on a Zane Grey novel in 1936), and some British (such as the Ealing Studios' The Overlanders in 1946).

[21] The Proposition (2005) was a "revisionist Western" or "anti-Western" film influenced by Robert Altman and Sam Peckinpah's work.

[22] The 2008 film, Australia, was an epic Western which included other genres such as adventure, action, drama, war and romance.

[23] Sweet Country, about European settlers' incursions into Aboriginal Australians' traditional lands, was made in 2017.