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...stereotypes. So when Mick Taylor begins riffing on Paul Hogan's line, "You call that a knife?" one senses Crocodile Dundee being buried forever in an unmarked grave. It's little surprise to learn that the director's next project, Rogue, is to be about a marauding crocodile in Kakadu National Park - Steve Irwin, watch your back. Already one can see Mclean setting a steely trap for unsuspecting audiences to slip into...
...Citing a collective concern over the script's readiness, the studio dismissed reports that Crowe alone forced the delay, closing the tiny window when both stars were available. The movie always faced steep challenges--a modest budget, huge stars, and the challenge of pronouncing eucalyptus-tree names such as Kakadu Woollybutt...
...caused a mass extinction - and we're in the middle of it." The issue is land: areas smaller than 300,000 sq. km have, Archer says, "no long-term viability to maintain mammal lineages. That's an order of magnitude greater than the biggest reserve we have in Australia - Kakadu - and it's certainly much bigger than anything in the U.S. So globally, this is a problem." Archer often runs up against the view that it doesn't much matter if humans exterminate up to 70% of all species during the next few hundred years, or if we disrupt ecosystems...
...money into the park." But Jeffrey Lee, a traditional owner from the Djok clan, says, "We are still really sad about the death of that German tourist and we want to make sure people are safe." Isabel von Jordan was killed by a crocodile in a Kakadu billabong in 2002; her group's tour guide had told them they could ignore warning signs. "If that attack" - the first fatal one in the park in 15 years - "hadn't happened, we'd still be swimming at Twin Falls," safari operator Bowman says. With saltwater crocodile numbers booming...
Calls for a cull don't fit with stewardship of a World Heritage Area, Whitehead says: "It's the fundamental tension. Kakadu's an area where natural values have to be maintained, but recreation is also supposed to be supported." Despite baiting and spotlighting attempts by rangers at Twin Falls, critics say Parks Australia, which last week was unwilling to comment, is not doing enough to keep the area safe. Kakadu, said N.T. Country Liberal Party Senator Nigel Scullion, "is not their personal fiefdom." It's unclear whether the Twin Falls saltie's capture would prompt a reconsideration...