A new century dawns and new hopes drive the people who proudly call themselves "Austrialian." Young idealist, Tolo Mason will journey into the outback--the far "never-never", the back of beyond--looking for treasures of gold and glory, finding danger in a deseret land where only the mysterious Aborigines survive. Others, like the famous Broome family, will turn to the intrigue of politics, raising new citited and grabbing the raw power to sail north to primative New Guinea, where the can reign as the conquerors, the takers, the Imperialists