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I'm very fond of this book and all its various adaptations. My first encounter with it was at age 5 when I went with my family to Hanging Rock and my sister kept telling me things like "this is where those girls disappeared!" and then "accidentally" leaving me behind. Fun memories! It's a very nice place to visit if you're ever in the region, by the way. I think the book really gets across the sense of dissonance you get in Australia sometimes of living in this very English society, imposing English values and aesthetics on a land that is absolutely hostile to it. Looking forward to reading the discussion!
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It's always been a tourist site, that's not something necessarily brought about by the book. I mean, it was literally a tourist site already in the book. That campaign seemed a bit misguided to me when it was ongoing since it's still centring Miranda and the story even when its saying we should focus on the Indigenous history. I went there a little while ago, and the info centre/museum is pretty small, but I remember there's a bit on the geology of the area, a bit on the indigenous history, some on the colonial history, and some on the book and film. The most recent adaptation of the book, the one with Natalie Dormer, is interesting as it reimagined one of the girls as an illegitimate Aboriginal daughter of a wealthy gentleman, who had sent her to the school as part of the "civilisation" of mixed Aboriginal children (look into the Stolen Generation for more about this). I never actually finished the TV series, but it made a lot of interesting adaptation choices. fake edit: do NOT click on the link to the website for mirandamustgo because she clearly lapsed paying for it and now it's porn.
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