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After his wife leaves him, an Australian migrant laborer takes his daughter on a journey through the Outback.
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In the Australian outback, a father and daughter find the meaning of family. In Australian slang, shiralee means burden. It also describes how itinerant laborer Mac Macauley (Brown) thinks of his nine-year-old daughter, Buster (Smart). Proud and stubborn, Mac ekes out a living - sometimes with his fists - on the dusty roads of the 1940s and '50s outback, with Buster in tow. Together they befriend a number of colorful characters, and Lily (Hazlehurst), a lovely rancher as maddeningly willful as Mac. At times, Mac and Buster grudgingly forge a father-daughter bond that hunger and hardship cannot break. Based on D'Arcy Niland's international bestseller, The Shiralee captures the wry humor and rugged independence of the Australian frontier.
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