Rabbit Proof Fence (film)

RabbitProof Fence is a 2002 Australian drama film directed by Phillip Noyce based on the book Follow the RabbitProof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. It is loosely based on a true story concerning the authors mother Molly, as well as two other mixedrace Aboriginal girls, who ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, Western Australia, to return to their Aboriginal families, after being placed there in 1931. The film follows the Aboriginal girls as they walk for nine weeks along 1,500 miles 2,400km of the Australian rabbitproof fence to return to their community at Jigalong, while being pursued by white law enforcement authorities and an Aboriginal tracker.

Set in 1931, two sisters, 14yearold Molly and 8yearold Daisy, and their 10yearold cousin Gracie live in the Western Australian town of Jigalong. The town lies along the northern part of Australias rabbitproof fence, which runs for several thousand miles.Thousands of miles away, the official Protector of Western Australian Aborigines, A. O. Neville called Mr. Devil by them, signs an order to relocate the three girls to his reeducation camp. The children are referred to by Neville as halfcastes, because they have one white and one Aboriginal parent. Nevilles reasoning is portrayed as the Aboriginal peoples of Australia are a danger to themselves, and the halfcastes must be bred out of existence. He plans to place the girls in a camp where they, along with all halfcastes of that age range, will grow up. They will then presumably become labourers and servants to white families, regarded as a good situation for them in life. Eventually if they marry, it will be to white people and thus the Aboriginal blood will diminish. As such, the three girls are forcibly taken from Jigalong by a local constable, Riggs, and sent to camp at the Moore River Native Settlement, in the south. ........

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