Molly (aged fourteen), her sister Daisy (aged eight), and their cousin Gracie (aged ten) are taken from their homes at Jigalong, situated in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, at the orders of the Protector of Aborigines, A.O. Phillip Noyce ) Australia: Rumbalara Films Olsen Levy Productions, 2002 Z919523 2002 single work film/TV ( taught in 15 units) Abstractīased on real life events that occurred in 1931, Rabbit-Proof Fence is the story of three mixed-race Aboriginal children who are forcibly abducted from their mothers by the Western Australian government. newspaper reports of the runaway children.' Source: Publisher's blurbįorm y Rabbit-Proof Fence Christine Olsen,

told from family recollections, letters between the authorities and the Aboriginal Protector, and.

The journey to freedom - longer than many of the legendary walks of explorer heroes. Tracked by native police and search planes, they hid in terror, surviving on bush tucker, desperate to return to the world they knew. Barefoot without provisions or maps, they set out to find the rabbit-proof fence, knowing it passed near their home in the north.

The three girls - aged 8, 11 and 14 - managed to escape from the settlement's repressive conditions and brutal treatment. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal family at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, north of Perth. 'The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Nugi Garimara Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometre walk home.

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