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The year's film calendar is loaded with Australian productions, and the composers attached to them deserve to be named before the reviews land.

The year's most anticipated Australian films include a Ned Kelly punk opera, a surfing memoir, and a magpie, and not one of them will have an easy path to the screen.

The ABC has a political thriller, Stan has a Cate Blanchett immigration drama, and Foxtel has whatever Foxtel always has, which is good television nobody subscribes to watch.