The remains of Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, and several other characters featured in the book and movie, are buried at the Elsey Cemetery. Jeannie Gunn is buried in Melbourne, but there is a memorial next to her husband's grave, which reads: ''IN loving memory of the 'Little Missus' JEANNIE GUNN Born. June 5th 1870. Died. June 9th 1961.''
The film is based on the book of the same name by Jeannie (Mrs Aeneas) Gunn OBE (1870-1961) [Mrs. Aeneas Gunn]. Although entitled "A Novel", the book, first published in 1908, was really a recreation of actual events. The book became an Australian classic and was used in schools and translated into the German language.
This picture was one of fifty Australian films selected for preservation as part of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Kodak / Atlab Cinema Collection Restoration Project.
The term "the Never-Never" refers to Australia's Outback area. In this case, it refers specifically to the area of Australia's Northern Territory, 200 miles south-east of Katherine.
According to an interview with director Igor Auzins published in the December 1982 issue of the Australian film journal 'Cinema Papers', ''I saw it as telling the story about the development of the rural heritage. There is no doubt that much of what Australia is, and what we are, is because of our rural background. It is not the events, nor the total scope, but the emotion of it - between races, between males and females, and between human beings and the countryside. 'We of the Never Never' seemed to sum it up very well.''