Laura Monaghan
Gracie Fields
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Jan 31, 2003 · Rabbit-Proof Fence: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, David Gulpilil. In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Dec 25, 2002 · It will be a journey of 1,500 miles. They have within their heads an instinctive map of the way and are aided by a fence that stretches for hundreds of miles across the outback, to protect farmlands from a pestilence of rabbits.
The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits, and other agricultural pests from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas.
Tells the true story of three aboriginal girls who are forcibly taken from their families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of an...
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When the fourteen-year-old half-white, half-Aboriginal girl Molly Craig is taken from her mother in Jigalong with her eight-year-old sister Daisy Kadibill, and their ten-year-old cousin Gracie Fields to the distant Moore River Native Center, they run away trying to return to the tribe in the desert.
Based on a true story, the book is a personal account of an Indigenous Australian family's experiences as members of the Stolen Generation —the forced removal of mixed-race children from their families during the early 20th century.
Jun 29, 2018 · In 1996, Molly’s daughter, Doris Pilkington Garimara, published the book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which was based on the girls’ escape from the Moore River settlement.
