![]() The film tells the moving story of how Craig and her younger sister Daisy Burungu, eight, and cousin Gracie Fields, eleven, escaped and walked home, first by walking east to the north-south rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia, then north, “following the rabbit proof fence home.” It was a welfare camp for Aboriginals of all ages. In 1931, her mother, Molly Craig (nee Kelly), born into the Mardudjara people, was taken at the age of 14 from Jigalong in the northwest corner of Western Australia and sent to the remote Moore River Settlement near Perth, more than 1,000 miles away to the south and west. It’s the saga of her mother’s escape from one such settlement. Pilkington Garimara published Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence in 1996. ![]() They were the ‘Stolen Children’ or ‘Stolen Generations’ of Australia. Pilkington Garimara was one of the approximately 100,000 children of mixed Aboriginal and white ancestry in Australia who over the course of 60 years were taken from their homes and reared in isolated settlements under the terms of the 1905 Aborigines Act, a policy of forced assimilation. ![]() Doris Pilkington Garimara was 76 and died in Perth on April 10. The Australian Aboriginal author on whose book the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fencewas based has died. ![]()
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