'Crocodile Creek came from a script by Rockhampton writer Barbara Birchall, inspired by a ‘disturbance’ in 1867, when racist violence targeted Chinese miners at the Crocodile Creek goldfield.
'Ms Birchall used these events as a backdrop for a romance between two teenagers, Irish Molly and Chinese Mickee. Their relationship is bitterly opposed by Molly’s father, Black Ned, the leader of the riot.'
Source: 'Baz Luhrmann’s ‘lost’ Crocodile Creek epic studied' (http://www.businessacumen.biz/index.php/65-news/creative-industries/783-baz-luhrmann-s-lost-crocodile-creek-epic-studied.html). (Sighted: 9/12/2015)
