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The north Queensland coastal town of Bowen is preparing for a special role in a Hollywood A-list movie - pretending to be Darwin.
Around a third of the Baz Luhrmann-directed outback epic, Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, is expected to be shot in Bowen from mid-May.
The epic centres on an English aristocrat, played by Kidman, who becomes the proprietor of a cattle station before World War II.
