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"A monster from Aboriginal mythology. Hundreds of years ago, the bunyips were represented as a kind of emu, but gradually, as Europeans and their totems entered the Dreaming, the devil, the bunyip, came to be seen as white men horses."... "The monster is us"

" I knew she would come and bloody ruin everything. Her, or someone like her. You know what she is, Matthew? She's the monster. The bunyip. She'll destroy us unless we destroy her. We got to get her."

Reference to "Bear Grylls" a british survival show from 2009 to 2016.
Physical knowledge as a tool for survival (water filter)

"They will kill us"

Heather seems to be the only one with any sense. Why would you go to a very private island to see koalas and give money to dodgy men to do it? The chaos afterwards was inevitable. The author also uses a lot of clichés in his description of the protagonists - stupid Americans who don't know much except for money, a backwoods family with an isolated island that attracts tourists and kidnaps them and is led by Ma.