NSW high school mottos

I believe a statewide audit of high school mottos is in order, so I have compiled a list of the top 30 high schools in New South Wales from 2012, to review what messages their mottos promote to our students.

#1. James Ruse Agricultural High School

"Gesta non verba" (Deeds not words)
James Ruse has topped HSC results for 18 consecutive years. Apparently, this has been achieved by students remaining mute and handing in blank essays accompanied by an interpretative dance to answer each question.

#2. North Sydney Boys High School
"Vincit qui se vincit" (He conquers who conquers himself)
Wankers.

 

#3. North Sydney Girls High School

"Ad Altiora" (Toward higher things)
Potheads.

#4. Sydney Girls High School

"Labor Omnia Vincit" (Work conquers all)
Does ‘conquers’ here also conquer boys who have conquered themselves? This whole conquering business is very confusing.

#5. Sydney Boys High School“
Veritate et Virtute” (Truth and courage)

Says the place that spawned Rene Rivkin.

 

#6. Baulkham Hills High School
“Persevere”
Uh, shouldn’t that be “Persevērāre”? Get your shit together, Baulko.

 

#7. Hornsby Girls’ High School

“Faith with Fortitude”
So far, the only school to properly incorporate a possessive apostrophe. Obviously, possession is a big part of the religious curriculum here.

 #8. Normanhurst Boys High School

“Know Thyself”
Every exam paper: Name? FULL MARKS!

 

#9. Fort Street High School
“Faber est suae quisque fortunae”(Every man is the maker of his own fortune)
And every woman is the maker of her husband’s sandwich? Nice choice of motto for your co-educational school there, fellas.

#10. Girraween High School
“Mens conscia recti”(Mind aware of right)
Says the school whose uniform is literally Fifty Shades of Grey.

#11. St George Girls High School
“Dieu et Droit” (God and Right)
Ooh, I like the French angle. (I also like how you differentiate the two.) Most of all, I like how your logo is a fucking ACADEMIC ATOP A NOBLE STEED, SLAYING A DRAGON WITH A SWORD.

 

#12. Northern Beaches Secondary College
“By effort, we achieve”
Come on, you couldn’t have put a little effort into your motto? Is 'by effort' even grammatically sound? Surely 'With effort' is the proper... wait, why is your school logo saying one motto and yet your official school motto is something completely diff- LOOK, JUST GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, BAULKO!!!


#13. Hurlstone Agricultural High School
“Pro Patria” (For our country)
With a 112 hectare campus, you certainly have a lot of country there to be all for...

 

#14. Sydney Technical High School
“Manners Makyth Man”
Damn; you know a motto is old when it uses an obsolete spelling of an already archaic word.

 

#15. Caringbah High School
“Omnia Vincit Diligentia” (Diligence Conquers All)
Well, shit, guys. Is it work or diligence that conquers all now? Too many mixed messages about conquering... are we educating despots here or something?

 

#16. Penrith High School
“Altiora Peto” (I am Striving for my Highest)
Wannabe potheads.


#17. Conservatorium High School
“Fiat Lux”(Let there be light)
I thought Harry Potter taught us this was “Lumos!” in Latin… is this a Genesis homage? Or are these stage directions for your annual musical showcases?

 
#18. Sefton High School
“Sincerity, Scholarship, Service”
Some seriously superfluous sibilance, Sefton.

 

#19. Killara High School
“Conserva Progredere” (The preservation of the best of the past and continued development into the future)
*looks at Latin… looks at English translation… looks back to Latin… looks at English translation*

 #20. Chatswood High School

“Per Gravia Ad Prospera”(Through Hard Work We Prosper)
For the first forty years of establishment, this had been incorrectly translated, making for a rather limited, yet culinarily successful, gravy-related curriculum.

 #21. Cheltenham Girls High School

“Truth, Unity, Concord”
You know they work the whole ‘unity’ and ‘concord’ angle by getting the top 12 spots in the state for HSC Aboriginal Studies in 2011, naming all their school houses after Aboriginal words… and not having a single Aboriginal student in the entire school.

 #22. Willoughby Girls High School

“Courage, Loyalty, Truth”
I think Simba attended Willoughby Girls High School.

#23. Macquarie Fields High School
“Loyalty, Sincerity and Generosity”
Okay, these three noun mottos are getting a little boring now.


#24. Ryde Secondary College
“Leadership, Respect, Co-operation and Responsibility”
Woah, a FOUR noun motto? HEL-LO!

#25. Cherrybrook Technology High
“Achieving Together”
Gesundheit.

#26. Carlingford High School
“Adventure In Learning”
Your school houses are named after Vikings and have a Viking warship as your school crest? Might be taking that motto a bit too far there...

 

#27. Turramurra High School
“Obedience to Conscience”
Many students misread this as ‘con science’, making Turramurra one of the leading producers of climate sceptics in Australia.

 #28. Tempe High School

“Laborer Fortiter”(Work hard)
Lol, they don’t even promise any prospering or conquering from it. Inspiring.

 
#29. Epping Boys High School
“Strive to Achieve”
STRRRIIIIIVE!*
(*This esoteric injoke is solely funny to The Armidale School cadet corps circa 1999-2004.)

#30. St Ives High School
“Optima Optime” (The best possible things in the best possible way)
Pretty sweet motto for a school that bases its entire math course on 7 times tables...
(This nursery rhyme joke is solely funny to Nib.)

Women, Race, and The Vote

"Societies believed that although a woman's place was in the home, she should be able to influence laws which impacted upon that home... others saw women's right to vote as a way of cancelling out the votes of lower class or non-white men."

You’ll have to excuse my ignorance on this matter. Going to an all boys’ school, I do not ever recall having studied women’s suffrage, though I did Ancient History in later years and they probably covered it in Modern History. As such, I was totally blindsided by how utterly recent it was in human history that women got equal voting and election rights as men… and even more so than that, the racial inequalities that existed until even more recently... and EVEN MORE SO THAN THAT, the fact that THERE ARE STILL PLACES IN THE WORLD TO THIS DAY WHERE WOMEN CAN’T VOTE OR RUN FOR OFFICE.

(A few of these dates gave conflicting messages about whether women were just allowed to vote, or won full suffrage rights of voting and being able to run for office, so I’ve played it safe and only differentiated ‘running for office’ when clearly stated.)

[[[… oh god dammit. You are kidding me. I just spent hours compiling this together into a timeline format, only to find that this had all already been put into timeline format at the next link. I HATE MY LIFE.]]]

 

Early years – Married women are considered property of their husband and not permitted to be involved in any local or government elections.

1776 - Unmarried women who own property are allowed to vote in New Jersey, USA. Yay gay rights! :D

1792 - Heads of household in Sierra Leone are allowed to vote, a third of which are women. Don't you mean a third of witch are women? TO THE STAKE, MATRONS!

1869 - Britain grants unmarried women who are householders the right to vote in local elections. EVERYTHING’S COMING UP SPINSTERS!

1881 - Isle Of Man territory enfranchises women to vote. OH, THE IRONY!

1893 - New Zealand becomes first nation to allow women a vote. The rest of the continents follow like sheep.

1894 - South Australia allows women to vote, and also run for office. (Following 1901 Australian Federation, White women are allowed to vote and run for parliament from 1902.)

1906 - Finland becomes first European nation to allow women to vote.

1913 - Norway allows women to vote.

1915 - Denmark allows women to vote.

1917 - Armenia (20+), Canada (21+), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia (21+) and Uruguay allow women to vote.

1918 - Azerbaijan, Georgia, Germany, Hungary and Kyrgyzstan allow women to vote. Britain & Ireland allows women 30+ to vote. YAY COUGAR GERRYMANDERING!

1919 - Austria (20+), Belarus, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ukraine and Zimbabwe (21+) allow women to vote. New Zealand women can now run for office .Apparently having the vast majority of your male population depleted from a huge war, like, affects your employment levels or some shit. FINE, OUT OF THE KITCHEN IF YOU MUST.

1920 - Albania, Czechoslovakia and USA allow women to vote.

1921 - Sweden allows women to vote.

1922 - Burma allows women to vote.

1924 - Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan allow women to vote. Politician pube sell for the high price, you see! Much quality, thick for many carpet! You will buy in the numerous, yes?

1926 - Turkey allows women to vote.

1928 - Britain allows women over 21 to vote, on par with men.

1929 - Ecuador and Puerto Rico allow women to vote. Canada recognised women as ‘persons’, allowing them to run for office. PROGRESS!

1930 - Greece (30+) allows literate women to vote (lol jokes no woman over thirty would have been allowed an education!), South Africa (21+) allows White women to vote. Turkey allows women to vote in local elections, and later, national elections in 1934.

1931 - Portugal, Spain and Sri Lanka allow women to vote.

1932 - Brazil, Maldives and Thailand allow women to vote.

1934 - Chile (25+) allows literate women to vote, Cuba allows 16 year olds to vote. THE HELL MAN, DO YOU GET A CIGAR FOR YOUR 12^TH BIRTHDAY OVER THERE?!

1937 – Indonesia (17+ or any age if married) allows White women to vote, Philippines allows women to vote.

1938 – Bolivia, Bulgaria, Romania and Uzbekistan allow women to vote. It is a golden era for Europe and nothing bad ever happens thereafter.

1939 – El Salvador allows women to vote.

1940 – Moldova allows women to vote.

1941 – A man, a plan, a vaginal canal, ana clan I gav anal, Panama allows women to vote.

1942 – Dominican Republic allows women to vote.

1944 – France, Jamaica and Bermuda allow women to vote… but only in a tricameral party arrangement. Ahahahaha. It’s a Bermuda Triangle joke.

1945 – Senegal, Togo and Yugoslavia allow women to vote. I’ve never Senegal go voting before, but if they have Togo, I guess Yugoslavia way through the housework every day and earned it.

1946 – Cameroon (20+), Djibouti, Guatemala, Italy, North Korea (17+), Liberia, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuala and Vietnam allow women to vote. War, man. You know? Like… war.

1947 - Argentina, China, India, Japan (20+), Malta, Mexico, Pakistan, Singapore (21+) and Taiwan (20+) allow women to vote. Oh great, and the bandwagon jumping begins…

1948 – Israel, South Korea (19+), Niger, Seychelles and Suriname allow women to vote. The UN adopts the international law of the United Nations' Human Rights Commission, headed by elected chair Eleanor Roosevelt, campaigning universal voting.

1949 – Costa Rica, Hong Kong and Syria allow women to vote.

1950 – Barbados and Haiti allow women to vote.

1951 -  … a collection of British Islands allow women to vote.  Also, Nepal.

1952 - Côte d'Ivoire (19+) and Lebanon (21+) allow women to vote.

1953 – Bhutan and Guyana allow women to vote. (Apparently, China officially had a law for this year, too, though Wikipedia didn’t seem to think the most populous nation on the planet was worth a clarification.)

1954 – Belize, Colombia and Ghana allow women to vote. The UN adopts the Convention on the Political Rights of Women for equal voting, ability to run for office and access public services.

1955 – Cambodia, Ethiopia, Honduras, Nicaragua (16+) and Peru allow women to vote. HOW MANY COUNTRIES ARE THERE IN THE WORLD? STICK AROUND TO FIND OUT! WE STILL HAVEN’T HAD DARKIES VOTING YET!

1956 – Benin, Comoros, Egypt, Gabon (21+), Mali, Mauritius and Somalia allow women to vote.

1957 – A slow year, Malaysia (21+) decides to break the ice to keep things moving.

1958 – Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea, Laos and Nigeria allow women to vote.

1959 – Brunei allows village elections for women, Madagascar, San Marino, Tanzania and Tunisia allow women to vote.

1960 – Bahamas, Cyprus, Gambia and Tonga (21+) allow women to vote. Canadian women (including Natives) can run for office.

1961 – Burundi, Malawi, Mauritania, Paraguay, Rwanda and Sierra Leone allow women to vote OH COME ON GUYS THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN WOMAN GOT VOTED INTO PARLIAMENT 40 YEARS AGO WHAT THE HELL IS TAKING SO LONG WITH Y’ALL.

1962 – Algeria, Monaco, Uganda and Zambia allow women to vote. OH, SHIT, WE FORGOT ABOUT INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS, YOU GUYS. BETTER ALLOW EQUALITY FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE HALF A CENTURY AFTER WOMEN, I GUESS. Just enrol first.

1963 – Afghanistan, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji (21+), Iran (15+ because fuck you that’s why), Kenya and Morocco allow women to vote. Man, some tough cookies in that mix.

1964 -  Libya, PNG and Sudan (17+) allow women to vote. It was a golden era for Libyan politics and a great window of political opportunity for women prior to Gaddafi’s political overthrow in 1969.

1965 – Botswana and Lesotho allow women to vote. I don’t know if you’ve read up on some of their laws, but… yeah. (Also the USA passes the Voting Rights Act enforcing racial equality for voting across all states. Have you read up on some of THEIR laws?) The 60s was fucking crazy progressive, yo…

1967 – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Yemen allows women to vote. I know you’ve never heard of most of those, but I’m sure it was significant to their ladies at the time.

1968 – Nauru (20 years) and Swaziland allow women to vote. Coloured voting systems run in South Africa for Whites, Coloreds and Indians in three separate councils until 1981.

1970 – Andorra allows women to vote. Boy, we’ve covered pretty much every third world nation and obscure island territory, haven’t we? Surely there are only totally obscure countries remaining by now that still haven’t given women the vote, right?

1971 – Switzerland allows wome- Wait a minute, SWITZERLAND? Motherfucking SWITZERLAND? You seriously had your women unable to vote at a federal level until seven years after the most misogynistic patriarchal Middle Eastern and African third world areas of the planet? … you’re SWITZERLAND!!!

1972 – Bangladesh allows women to vote.

1973 – Neil Patrick Harris born. The world forgets about women entirely.

1974 – Jordan and Solomon Islands (21+) allow women to vote. Isabel Martínez de Perón becomes President of Argentina.

1975 – Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Vanuatu allow women to vote.

1976 – East Timor (17+) allows women to vote.

1977 – Guinea-Bissau allows women to vote.

1979 – Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau allow women to vote. (I think the telegram from Oceania just arrived with the memo.)

1980 – Iraq allows women to vote. Pretty much any country listed after this is a place you will never want to travel to ever. Also, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes President of Iceland. I DON’T REMEMBER ICELAND’S VOTING HISTORY BEING LISTED HERE, SUFFRAGE IS CONFUSING.

1984 – Liechtenstein allows women to vote on referendum. This decision had previously been voted against in 1968, 1971 and 1973… wait for it… because only men were voting!  South African Coloreds and Indians are also now allowed to vote in Tricameral Parliament.

1986 – Central African Republic (21+) allows women to vote. Too bad that’s also average life expectancy…

1989 – Namibia allows women to vote.

1990 – Samoa (21+) allows women to vote.

1994 - South African Tricameral Parliament abolished for equal universal to vote. That’s Black women finally getting an equal vote. In 1994.

1997 – Qatar allows women to vote. Our Year 2 teacher always said girls were equal to boys; MY CHILDHOOD WAS A LIE!

2002 – Bahrain allows women to vote. Wow. Really. I was not aware that there were parts of the world where women still couldn’t vote whilst I was in high school.

2003 – Oman (21+) allows women to vote. OH, THE LACK OF IRONY!

2005 – Kuwait (21+) allows women to vote. WOW. I AM AN UNEDUCATED AND IGNORANT HUMAN BEING.

2006 – United Arab Emirates allows women to vote.

2012 - Catholicism, Islam and Judaism: women still not allowed to vote for Pope or run for official positions within a church, mosque or synagogue.

2015 – Saudi Arabia (21+) is expected to allow women to vote, as announced in 2011. *SLOW CLAP*

Australian Cinema: Part 1

Originally posted 11/10/2010


One of the first things they mention in Australian media studies is how stagnant our film industry has been for a long, long time. It is a general rule of thumb that a Hollywood film must make 4 times the production costs at the box office in order to break even; factoring in a rough 50% cut that cinemas take per ticket sold and distributors taking 25%.

Vincent Sheehan, Head of Producing at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, estimates that an Australian film being put out into the international market has to make almost SIX times as much as the production costs in order to START turning a profit, due to shipping and getting everything marketed overseas. Personally, I think the mining industry is the way to go, job wise.

Anyways, it took three days to compile and cross-reference the data below from five or six different sources per film. Where box office sales were listed for Sweden, France, Germany, Italy or Hong Kong, I converted from Swedish Krona, French Franc, Deutschemark, Italian Lira, Hong Kong Dollar or Euro into US Dollars, according to the day/month/year date of the data source provided. I have then listed films according to budget vs profit and provided individual stats for each film.

This is probably the most accurate list of Australian film box office data you can find online right now. Juuuuust saying. Most box office websites have an ‘N/A’ for 90% of the films listed here:

TOP 20 HIGHEST-GROSSING AUSTRALIAN FILMS

1. Happy Feet                                     $384.3 million

2. Crocodile Dundee                           $328.2 million

3. Babe                                                $254.1 million

4. Crocodile Dundee II                       $239.6 million

5. Australia                                          $211.3 million

6. Moulin Rouge!                                $179.2 million

7. Mad Max                                        $109.0 million

8. Saw                                                 $103.1 million

9. Babe Pig In The City                      $69.1 million

10. The Piano                                      $53.4 million

11. Shine                                             $53.4 million

12. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome $49.8 million

13. Mad Max 2: Road Warrior           $47.8 million

14. Green Card                                   $40.5 million

15. Crocodile Dundee In LA              $39.4 million

16. The Man From Snowy River        $37.9 million

17. Strictly Ballroom                           $33.7 million

18. Muriel’s Wedding                         $30.9 million

19. Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert     $28.6 million

20. Young Einstein                             $28.5 million

 

TOP 20 HIGHEST-PROFITING AUSTRALIAN FILMS

1. The Castle                                       58,729% profit

2. Mad Max                                        27,150% profit

3. Saw                                                 9,273% profit

4. Crocodile Dundee                           3,629% profit

5. Wolf Creek                                     2, 680% profit

6. Mad Max II Road Warrior              2,290% profit

7. Crocodile Dundee II                       1,416% profit

8. Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert       1,330% profit

9.  Picnic At Hanging Rock                1,082% profit

10. Strictly Ballroom                           1,023% profit

11. The Man From Snowy River        982% profit

12. Shine                                             871% profit

13. Babe                                              747% profit

14. Muriel’s Wedding                         730% profit

15. The Piano                                      663% profit

16. Kenny                                           570% profit

17. Gallipoli                                        569% profit

18. Young Einstein                             470% profit

19. The Man From Snowy River 2     322% profit

20. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome   315% profit

 

TOP 5 LOSERS IN AUSTRALIAN FILM

1. Babe: Pig In The City                     -$10.9 million (-13.6% loss)

2. Jindabyne                                        -$8.0 million (-57% loss)

3. Mao’s Last Dancer                          -$5.5 million (-22% loss)

4. Hey, Hey, It’s Esther Blueburger   -$5.2 million (-85.8% loss)

5. Somersault                                      -$1.8 million (-45% loss)

 

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THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (1994)

Budget:           $2 million

US:                  $11.2 million (39.1%)

Foreign:           $17.4 million (60.9%)

Gross:              $28.6 million

Profit:              $26.6 million (1330% profit)

 

ANIMAL KINGDOM (2010)

Budget:           $5 million

US:                  $908,344 (17.2%)

Foreign:           $4.4 million (82.8%)

Gross:              $5.3 million

Profit:              $300,000 (6% profit)

 

AUSTRALIA (2008)

Budget:           $130 million

US:                  $49.5 million (23.4%)

Foreign:           $161.8 million (76.6%)

Gross:              $211.3 million

Profit:              $81.3 million (63% profit)

 

BABE (1995)

Budget:           $30 million

US:                  $63.6 million (25%)

Foreign:           $190.5 million (75%)

Gross:              $254.1 million

Profit:              $224.1 million (747% profit)

 

BABE: PIG IN THE CITY (1998)

Budget:           $80 million

US:                  $18.3 million (26.5%)

Foreign:           $50.8 million (73.5%)

Gross:              $69.1 million

Profit:              -$10.9 million (-13.6% loss)

 

BRAN NUE DAE (2009)

Budget:           $6.5 million

US:                  $113,000 (1.5%)

Foreign:           $7 million (98.5%)

Gross:              $7.1 million

Profit:              $600,000 (9.2% profit)

 

CANDY (2006)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $45,138 (2.1%)

Foreign:           $2.1 million (97.9%)

Gross:              $2.1 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

THE CASTLE (1999)

Budget:           $19,000

US:                  $877,621 (8.1%)

Foreign:           $10.3 million (91.9%)

Gross:              $11.2 million

Profit:              $11.2 million (58729% profit)

 

CHOPPER (1999)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $236,185 (3.1%)

Foreign:           $6.2 million (96.9%)

Gross:              $6.4 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

CROCODILE DUNDEE (1986)

Budget:           $8.8 million

US:                  $174.8 million (53.3%)

Foreign:           $153.4 million (46.7%)

Gross:              $328.2 million

Profit:              $319.4 million (3629% profit)

 

CROCODILE DUNDEE II (1988)

Budget:           $15.8 million

US:                  $109.3 million (45.6%)

Foreign:           $130.3 million (54.4%)

Gross:              $239.6 million

Profit:              $223.8 million (1416% profit)

 

CROCODILE DUNDEE IN LOS ANGELES (2001)

Budget:           $21.5 million

US:                  $25.6 million (65%)

Foreign:           $13.8 million (35%)

Gross:              $39.4 million

Profit:              $17.9 million (83% profit)

 

DARK CITY (1998)

Budget:           $27 million

US:                  $14.4 million (52.4%)

Foreign:           $13.1 million (47.6%)

Gross:              $27.5 million

Profit:              $500,000 (2% profit)

 

THE DISH (2000)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $2.6 million

Foreign:           $14 million

Gross:              $16.6 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

GALLIPOLI (1981)

Budget:           $2.6 million

US:                  $5.7 million (32.8%)

Foreign:           $11.7 million (68.2%)

Gross:              $17.4 million

Profit:              $14.8 million (569% profit)

 

GENE X (2006)

Budget:           $1.4 million

US:                  $0

Foreign:           $0

Gross:              $0

Profit:              -$1.4 million (-100% loss)

 

GREEN CARD (1990)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $29.9 million (73.8%)

Foreign:           $10.6 million (26.2%)

Gross:              $40.5 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

HAPPY FEET (2006)

Budget:           $100 million

US:                  $198 million (51.5%)

Foreign:           $186.3 million (48.5%)

Gross:              $384.3 million

Profit:              $284.3 million (284% profit)

 

HEY HEY, IT’S ESTHER BLUEBURGER (2008)

Budget:           $6 million

US:                  $7,745 (1%)

Foreign:           $843,000 (99%)

Gross:              $850,745

Profit:              -$5.2 million (-85.8% loss)

 

JINDABYNE (2006)

Budget:           $14 million

US:                  $400,438 (6.6%)

Foreign:           $5.6 million (93.4%)

Gross:              $6 million

Profit:              -$8 million (-57% loss)

 

KENNY (2006)

Budget:           $1 million

US:                  $69,220 (1%)

Foreign:           $6.7 million (99%)

Gross:              $6.7 million

Profit:              $5.7 million (570% profit)

 

LANTANA (2001)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $4.6 million (27.4%)

Foreign:           $12.2 million (72.6%)

Gross:              $16.8 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

LITTLE FISH (2005)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $8,148 (0.2%)

Foreign:           $3.8 million (99.8%)

Gross:              $3.8 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI (2000)

Budget:           $4.5 million

US:                  $3.5 million (29.7%)

Foreign:           $8.3 million (70.3%)

Gross:              $11.8 million

Profit:              $7.3 million (162% profit)

 

MAD MAX (1979)

Budget:           $400,000

US:                  $8.75 million (8%)

Foreign:           $100 million (92%)

Gross:              $109 million

Profit:              $108.6 million (27150% profit)

 

MAD MAX 2: ROAD WARRIOR (1981)

Budget:           $2 million

US:                  $23.7 million (49.6%)

Foreign:           $24.1 million (51.4%)

Gross:              $47.8 million

Profit:              $45.8 million (2290% profit)

 

MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (1985)

Budget:           $12 million

US:                  $36.2 million (72.7%)

Foreign:           $13.6 million (27.3%)

Gross:              $49.8 million

Profit:              $37.8 million (315% profit)

 

THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER (1982)

Budget:           $3.5 million

US:                  $20.7 million (54.6%)

Foreign:           $17.2 million (45.4%)

Gross:              $37.9 million

Profit:              $34.4 million (982% profit)

 

THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER II (1988)

Budget:           $5 million

US:                  $13.7 million (64.9%)

Foreign:           $7.4 million (35.1%)

Gross:              $21.1 million

Profit:              $16.1 million (322% profit)

 

MAO’S LAST DANCER (2009)

Budget:           $25 million

US:                  $3.6 million (18.3%)

Foreign:           $15.9 million (81.7%)

Gross:              $19.5 million

Profit:              -$5.5 million (-22% loss)

 

MARY & MAX (2009)

Budget:           $8 million

US:                  [no data]

Foreign:           $8.2 million

Gross:              [insufficient data]

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

MOULIN ROUGE! (2001)

Budget:           $52.5 million

US:                  $57.4 million (32%)

Foreign:           $121.8 million (68%)

Gross:              $179.2 million

Profit:              $126.7 million (241% profit)

 

MURIEL’S WEDDING (1995)

Budget:           $3 million

US:                  $15.1 million (48.9%)

Foreign:           $42.3 million (51.1%)

Gross:              $30.9 million

Profit:              $21.9 million (730% profit)

 

PHAR LAP (1983)

Budget:           $7 million

US:                  $2.9 million (23.8%)

Foreign:           $9.3 million (76.2%)

Gross:              $12.2 million

Profit:              $5.2 million (74% profit)

 

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)

Budget:           $440,000

US:                  $85,000 (1.6%)

Foreign:           $5.1 million (98.4%)

Gross:              $5.2 million

Profit:              $4.76 million (1082% profit)

 

THE PIANO (1993)

Budget:           $7 million

US:                  $40.2 million (75.3%)

Foreign:           $13.2 million (24.7%)

Gross:              $53.4 million

Profit:              $46.4 million (663% profit)

 

THE PROPOSITION (2006)

Budget:           $2 million

US:                  $1.9 million (37.7%)

Foreign:           $3.1 million (62.3%)

Gross:              $

 

RABBIT PROOF FENCE (2002)

Budget:           $6 million

US:                  $6.2 million (32.8%)

Foreign:           $10 million (61.8%)

Gross:              $16.2 million

Profit:              $10.2 million (170% profit)

 

RECKLESS KELLY (1993)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $203,602 (3.3%)

Foreign:           $5.9 million (96.7%)

Gross:              $6.1 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

ROMPER STOMPER (1992)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $175,340 (5%)

Foreign:           $3.3 million (95%)

Gross:              $3.5 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

SAMSON & DELILAH (2009)

Budget:           $1.6 million

US:                  [no data]

Foreign:           $3.2 million

Gross:              [insufficient data]

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

SAW (2004)

Budget:           $1.1 million    

US:                  $55.2 million (53.5%)

Foreign:           $47.9 million (46.5%)

Gross:              $103.1 million

Profit:              $102 million (9273% profit)

 

SHINE (1996)

Budget:           $5.5 million

US:                  $35.9 million (67.2%)

Foreign:           $17.5 million (32.8%)

Gross:              $53.4 million

Profit:              $47.9 million (871% profit)

 

SOMERSAULT (2004)

Budget:           $4 million

US:                  $92,214 (4.2%)

Foreign:           $2.1 million (95.8%)

Gross:              $2.2 million

Profit:              -$1.8 million (-45% loss)

 

STRICLY BALLROOM (1992)

Budget:           $3 million       

US:                  $11.7 million (34.7%)

Foreign:           $22 million (65.3%)

Gross:              $33.7 million

Profit:              $30.7 million (1023% profit)

 

TEN CANOES (2006)

Budget:           $2.2 million

US:                  $283,654 (7.9%)

Foreign:           $3.3 million (92.1%)

Gross:              $3.6 million

Profit:              $1.4 million (63.6% profit)

 

TWO HANDS (1999)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  [no data]

Foreign:           $5.5 million

Gross:              [insufficient data]

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

THE WOG BOY (2000)

Budget:           $4 million

US:                  $2 million (14.9%)

Foreign:           $11.4 million (85.1%)

Gross:              $13.4 million

Profit:              $9.4 million (235% profit)

 

WOLF CREEK (2005)

Budget:           $1 million

US:                  $16.2 million (58.3%)

Foreign:           $11.6 million (41.7%)

Gross:              $27.8 million

Profit:              $26.8 million (2680% profit)

 

THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE (1987)

Budget:           [no data]

US:                  $213,900 (12.5%)

Foreign:           $1.5 million (87.5%)

Gross:              $1.7 million

Profit:              [insufficient data]

 

YOUNG EINSTEIN (1988)

Budget:           $5 million

US:                  $11.5 million (40.4%)

Foreign:           $17 million (59.6%)

Gross:              $28.5 million

Profit:              $23.5 million (470% profit)

 

SOURCES:

Box Office

Box Office Mojo

Film Finance Corporation

imdb

Murdoch University Australian Film Database

Rotten Tomatoes

Screen Australia

Urban Cinefile

Various newspaper articles, interviews, film website threads and fan blogs

Wikipedia