Rabbit Proof Fence

Setting Western Australia 1930’s – true story The Rabbit Proof Fence was designed to keep rabbits out of West Australia’s farmlands At the northern end is Jigalong – a camp for aborigines At the southern end is the Moore River Native Settlement – a government school and orphanage About 1600 kilometres between the two places

Main Characters Molly Craig, the eldest of the three girls Daisy Burungu, Molly's sister. Gracie Fields, Molly's and Daisy's cousin. A.O.Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia. Moodoo, the aboriginal tracker Mavis, Mollie and Daisy’s mother

Story Mollie, Daisy and Gracie are half-white Aboriginal children A.O.Neville believes that Aboriginal children with “white blood” should be raised without their aboriginal identity and culture He believes that blackness can be bred out He orders they be taken from Jigalong to the Moore River native settlement 1600 kilometres away The children escape and try to get home

Questions Is A.O.Neville simply a bad man? Is racism just something that bad people do? Are you a racist in any way? How do some of the Aborigines in the film demonstrate that they have absorbed racist ideas? What was the theory of eugenics? Why did Moodoo, the Aboriginal tracker, work with the white authorities? What does the girls’ long trek prove? What happened to Mollie’s daughter, the author of the book that the film is based on?