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Listed below is the cast (which is made up of some of the most talented and famous Australian actors of our time) and the roles they play in the movie as shown on wikipedia:

• Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley, an English aristocrat who inherits the cattle station Faraway Downs in Australia.
• Hugh Jackman as an Australian drover who helps Lady Sarah Ashley move the cattle across the property.
• Essie Davis as Katherine
• David Wenham as Neil Fletcher, a station manager who plans to take Faraway Downs from Lady Sarah Ashley.
• Jack Thompson as Kipling Flynn, an alcoholic accountant who enjoys a luxurious lifestyle.
• Bryan Brown as King Carney, a cattle baron who owns much of the land in northern Australia.
• Brandon Walters as the drover’s assistant Nullah, a young boy who helps drive the cattle for Lady Sarah Ashley.
• David Gulpilil as King George, a magic tribal elder.

This one is definitely on my list of movies to see as it looks spectacular :)

The release date for the movie in Australia is set for November 13, 2008. Other release dates can be found on the official website.

He will be back in sunny Australia for the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival between March and April 2009, but in the meantime you can watch some videos of his last two comedy festival shows:

A Fistful of Rainbows (2008 solo show)
It’s everything you need to know about napalm and vikings.

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What Would Batman Do? (2007 solo show)

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Hope the UK thing goes well for you Kent :)

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You can find all of the worldwide release dates for the movie here.

“The Lost Boys” trailor

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Over at YouTube you can also watch a video from 1995 that has the two Corey’s talking about the original movie.

Well, just over 20 years later we get a sequel, “Lost Boys: The Tribe” (IMDB - wikipedia), which reunites the two Corey’s and brings in Angus Sutherland who is the younger half-brother of Kiefer and plays the lead vampire.

“Lost Boys: The Tribe” trailor

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Hopefully they don’t butcher the memory of the original movie too much…

Thanks for all your innovation, ideas, persistence and hard work Bill…the world certainly wouldn’t have been the same without you :)

Note: The “Bill Gates: Looking Back, Moving Ahead” videos at the Microsoft PressPass site and at YouTube.

So why TechEvents.com.au?
Simple. I found that even between Meetup, Upcoming, CalendarHub and Eventful, they just didn’t list all of the technology events being held in Melbourne. Many groups, event organisers and vendors don’t list their events on third party websites.

TechEvents.com.au doesn’t aim to be yet another calendar service, but rather it aims to be an outlet where several individuals from a variety of groups submit events they hear about or are involved with. Our focus is on making sure we’ve got the content, not so much the application. We expect the majority of our users will export the events they are interested in directly into their calendar of choice.

Other than the main site, which is devoted to Melbourne events, they also have a site in beta which is designed to cover tech events in other Australian states.

The stats for those “unique visitors” over the last five years stats looks like this:

Unfortunately between early October 2007 and late February 2008 I had a period where the blog backend had a dummy spit and i was unable to post anything, so my stats are way down from last year…

Check out the program for whats on.

And while you are passing through on your way to or back from Warburton, and enjoying the lovely scenery, stop by the Upper Yarra Museum, which is located in the old Yarra Junction Train Station in Yarra Junction, and learn about the history of the region. The Museum is open on Sunday between the hours of 1.30PM and 5PM.

Doc Searls is one of those extremely talented and knowledgeable individuals that has been a pretty big influence on lots of people over the years through his many positions, magazine articles, his blog and of course as being one of the four authors of the amazing book called “The Cluetrain Manifesto”.

Back in my podcasting days (as a co-founder of The Podcast Network and as a co-host of G’day World), Doc was one of the amazing people that i am glad we got to interview :)

Get well soon Doc.

This event will once again utilse the interviewing talents of one of Australia’s best technology writer’s/journalist’s, Brad Howarth, who will put his skills to work interviewing both the AIMIA (Australian Interactive Media Industry Association) CEO and National President, John Butterworth and Guy Gadney.

John Butterworth, CEO AIMIA
John Butterworth joined AIMIA as Chief Executive Officer in July 2004 and has worked extensively in digital content and marketing since 1996.

For a number of years John was the General Manager of online media at OzEmail Ltd and then held the roles of Managing Director, Asia-Pacific at Sabela Media, and General Manager of Decide Interactive.

John is also the founder of the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Australia and continues to sit on the IAB board.

Guy Gadney, President of AIMIA
Guy Gadney is the current President of AIMIA and the General Manager of Digital Services for PBL Media.

Prior to that, he was Director of Content Production for Telstra BigPond, overseeing the broadband and narrowband sites for AFL, V8 Supercars, GameArena, Music Downloads. He joined BigPond after leading and completing the delivery of the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and Games channels for the launch of FOXTEL Digital.

Guy began working in new media in the late 80’s and has produced projects for laserdisc, CD-ROM, internet, multiplayer games and interactive TV. He was Head of Multimedia for Penguin Books UK in the mid-nineties before going on to produce large-scale websites for the band Oasis, the Guardian newspaper’s Football and Cricket sites, and the FoxKids European internet rollouts.

In 1999 he joined BBC Worldwide looking after all the interactive TV and broadband developments. While there he conceived and produced over 30 broadband and interactive projects for a variety of BBC licences including Top of the Pops, Top Gear, the Rough Guides series and Gardener’s World.

After the BBC, Guy produced the online massively multiplayer game Diaspora which pitted thousands of online players against each other simultaneously, and the development of 3D games engines for PC and Playstation. The Diaspora technology was also used as a basis for a multiplayer quiz engine which was used by Sky, NME, Eurosport, Wisden, and a number of other movie, TV and sports websites. His interactive TV work during this time included leading the production of the four interactive TV portals for Fish4.co.uk, and two EPGs for UK cable TV and the Radio Times.

Guy has been on the judging panel of BAFTA’s interactive awards in the UK and AIMIA in Australia, and is Director of a UK-based production company specialising in 3D virtual worlds and non-linear narratives.

As always, the event is free but you need to register at the domain site…it will no doubt be another great event so see you on the night :)

Note: I sit as a Director on the National Board of AIMIA.