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Article: Christopher Hawkes on Rabbit-Proof Fence.
- Article from:
- Arena Magazine
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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In the closing moments of Rabbit-Proof Fence, two elderly half-caste Aboriginal women stand in a bush landscape and look directly into the lens of a video camera. The accompanying voice-over identifies them as Molly Kelly and Daisy Kadibil, whose efforts as young girls to escape the Moore River Native Settlement and walk the 1,600 km back home to Jigalong have been the subject of the preceding narrative. The voice-over also tells us that Gracie Cross--the third girl captured half-way home--died without ever returning to Jigalong; and that Molly was later recaptured, walked home once again, and has yet to be reunited with the older daughter who (being too big to carry) she ...
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Article: The incredible journey.(Review)
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);
November 10, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... although the children of the Moore River Native Settlement call him Mr Devil, thanks ... And when the girls get to Moore River, they are met with a regime ... sent after all runaways from Moore River. As the only native working ...
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