An Australian take on Heath and the Oscar

In The Australian, Steven Romei writes on why Heath deserves the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Brokeback Mountain:

He has acted out of his skin - which is that of an occasionally yobbish heterosexual Australian male - and beyond his years to produce something utterly deserving of the Academy Award nomination he received yesterday.

Ledger becomes gay cowboy Ennis Del Mar. There are no false notes. As the film unfolds we want nothing more than for our Heath - whom we have forgotten is our Heath - to settle down with his handsome lover on a little ranch in the wilds of Wyoming.

Writing from that little-ranch-of-the-mind, I would have to agree.