It is an historical drama about the settlement of white Australia, including scenes of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay, skirmishes with Australian Aborigines and the Lambing Flat riots.
The main plot concerns the Lambing Flat riots, which is depicted as partly being caused by the Chinese attempting to murder a white girl after she criticises them for washing their clothes in the drinking water.
[1] The film had its premiere at the Young "Strand Theatre" in September 1928,[17] and despite full houses over three nights[18] was shown nowhere else and is believed to have lost its investors money.
[20] Modern critics have compared its production and acting unfavourably to The Birth of a Nation of a decade earlier, whose tone is similarly deprecated.
The film, which ran to 90 minutes, created a distinctly disturbed reaction from filmgoers, presumably discomfited by its unashamedly racist theme.