RE: Harbour (a solarpunk story) part #3 'The storm'.
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Australia DOES have an Australian Gothic genre, characterized by loneliness (lone trees, big spaces etc), isolation (lost children, distance from motherland etc), strange noises (the creaking windmill, the shriek of wild animals), etc etc. There's a lot of movies and books that would fall under that genre and Picnic at Hanging Rock is definitely one. The Hunter with Willem Defoe. The DrOvers Wife by Lawson... Amazing story if you haven't read it but also read The Tramp short story Barbara Baynton. Even Mad Max had elements of it in the first film imo. Sometimes crosses over into Australian noir or horror . Wolf Creek, Bad Boy Bubby, what was that Guy Pearce one.. the western? Wake in Fright, for sure. One Night the Moon. Lantana. Actually it's hard to find an Australian film that doesn't border on gothic 🤪
Just decided to have a little google and see what other Aus Gothic lists said and was reminded of this amazing gem
Ghosts of the Civil dead... definitely one of my favourites. Haven't seen it for decades though.
Our Gothic lacks the baroque features that I love about European and Japanese Gothic. As you say, we go more for loneliness and separation.