Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary.
Their pursuers take orders from the government's "Chief Protector of Aborigines", A. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view, and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive? It's in Western Australia. Neville is the government's official in dealing with Aborigine issues. Under the law, he has the right to seize "half-caste" children, those with both Aborigine and white parentage, to be housed on native settlements, where they are to be "re-educated" to western ways, eventually to become servants for whites.
The assertion is that this measure will protect the Aborigine population, as if they are left to intermingle within Aborigine communities, half-castes will turn the community white, as the weaker Aborigine gene will be bred out within a few generations. It is under this law, that Neville seizes, amongst others, sisters, fourteen-year-old Molly Craig , and eight-year-old Daisy Craig Kadibill , and their ten-year-old cousin Gracie Fields.
Ever since arriving at the Moore River Native Settlement camp, Molly plans to escape with her sister and cousin, and walk all of the way back to Jigalong to their real home, real family, and their traditional way of life. Molly uses the three thousand kilometer one thousand eight hundred sixty-four mile long rabbit-proof fence, which runs adjacent to Jigalong to navigate her way home.
But Neville and his trackers will not let a bunch of half-caste girls circumvent the law and its associated grand plan. Neville, had the power to relocate half-Aboriginal children from their families to educational centers to learn the culture of the white man.
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.
They are chased by the skilled tracker Moodoo and the police under the command of Neville, and have to survive their long journey back home. Today, the State Barrier Fence prevents emus migrating to agricultural areas as well as wild dogs from attacking livestock.
Rabbit-Proof Fence is set in Western Australia in It follows sisters Molly and Daisy, and their cousin Gracie, who live in Jigalong, a town located on the northern part of the No. The three girls are forcibly removed from their home and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement, a re-education camp organised by the Chief Protector of Western Australian Aborigines, A.
The girls escape the camp and spend nine weeks following the Rabbit-Proof Fence over 2, kilometres 1, miles back home. Neville instructs an Aboriginal tracker to find them, but the girls are skilled in covering their tracks. Gracie is unfortunately deceived and recaptured along the way, but Molly and Daisy make it back to Jigalong, where they go into hiding in the desert with their mother and grandmother.
Rabbit-Proof Fence stirred up a lot of controversy in Australia, due to its portrayal of the Stolen Generations. This term relates to the Torres Strait Islander and Australian Aboriginal children removed from their homes by Australian Federal and State government agencies, as well as church missions.
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Western Australia, Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary.
Their pursuers take orders from the government's "Chief Protector of Aborigines", A. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view, and conventional wisdom.
Can the girls survive? If you were kidnapped by the government, would you walk the miles back home? Rated PG for emotional thematic material. Did you know Edit. Trivia Everlyn Sampi Molly Craig ran away twice during filming. In one instance, she was found in a phone booth, trying to buy tickets back to Broome.
Quotes Daisy Kadibill : [after Molly lifts Daisy up to a bird's nest to gather some eggs to eat] Three of them!
Crazy credits The painting songs sung by the Walpiri, Amatjere and Wangajunka women were not sacred songs, but were songs able to be performed in public. User reviews Review. Top review. A Scathing Attack on Racism. Continuing policies begun by the British, the white government in Australia for six decades forcibly removed all half-caste Aborigines from their families "for their own good" and sent them to government camps where they were raised as servants, converted to Christianity, and eventually assimilated into white society.
Based on the book, "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" by Doris Pilkington Garimara Molly Kelly's daughter , the film tells the story of three Aboriginal girls, year old Molly Kelley, her 8-year old sister Daisy, and their year old cousin Gracie. It shows their escape from confinement in a government camp for half-castes and their return home across the vast and lonely Australian Outback. It is a simple story of indomitable courage, told with honest emotion.
Abducted by police in from their families at Jigalong, an Aboriginal settlement on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert in northwest Australia, the three girls are sent to the Moore River Native Settlement near Perth. Here the children must endure wretched conditions. Herded into mass dormitories, they are not allowed to speak their native language, are subject to strict discipline, and, if they break the rules, are put into solitary confinement for 14 days.
Followed by the Aborigine tracker, Moodoo a great performance from David Gulpilil , the girls make their escape.
Using a "rabbit-proof fence" as a navigation tool, they walk miles across the parched Outback to return to Jigalong. The rabbit-proof fence was a strip of barbed-wire netting that cut across half of the continent and was designed to protect farmer's crops by keeping the rabbits away.
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