challenge the traveller.’ In what ways have the travellers in “Rabbit Proof Fence” been challenged by the nature of their journey? The film the Rabbit Proof Fence, by Philip Noice, is the story of three indigenous Australian girls Molly, Gracie and Daisy, who were forcibly taken from their home in Jigalong in 1931. Under the mandate of the Aborigines Protection Act, the young girls were sent to the Moore river settlement, where their aboriginality was to “simply, be bred out”. As the central characters…
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