Trevor,
you talk about European films such as Babette's Feast. I think in terms of nomads camping in the Australian bushseeking refuge in the inner sanctum of personal experience riding motorbikes through the desert easy rider style, lost souls seeking harmony with nature, an emphasis on passion and talks about 1890s bush nationalism and national self-determination.

All that feeling, emotion and fantasizing was wrapped up in a crude marxist politics. Wrapped up because ther was little connection between the marxist politics and the romantic imagination and feeling of the romantic subject.