This is a hot topic because it deals with the separation of children from their parents - an emotional business. There are always hot topics in Australian history. The film matters to historians because it deals with a controversial issue, sometimes called the issue of the 'Stolen Generations'. Her book is called Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. The story was first published in 1996 in a book written by Molly's daughter, Doris Pilkington, who also goes by the name of Nugi Garimara. The film is based on Daisy's recollections of the epic journey, her family's memories, official documents and newspaper reports. Image reproduced by courtesy of Jabal Films Pty Ltd This image is taken from the film Rabbit-Proof Fence They followed the rabbit-proof fence built to keep rabbits from gaining access west of the fence. They lived off bush tucker including emu chicks plucked and cooked, birds eggs, rabbits and lizards. Police and trackers searched for them but failed to find them. They took off, intent on going back to Jigalong. Molly, Gracie and Daisy were taken from their family in 1931 by the police because they were deemed in the language of the day 'half-caste' and transported 2,400 kilometers to the Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth. It tells the story of three mixed descent girls from an Aboriginal settlement at Jigalong, in the far north of Western Australia. Molly, the oldest of the three and the leader of the group, succeeded in delivering the three to their homelands as she was equipped with a range of essential survival skills, those learned from her white father, an inspector on the fence, and those learned from her step-father, 'a former nomad from the desert' and an 'expert' in bushcraft.In 2022 the Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence was released nationwide and won the Best Film category at the Australian Film Industry Awards. In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, however, the fence, for three young girls, is 'a symbol of love, home and security' those most coveted and most mourned entitlements for generations of stolen people. In fact, in a kind of carnivalesque humour, Pilkington contends that there were more rabbits on the Western Australian side of the fence than on the South Australian side. In 1907 a fence 1,834 kms in length was built from the Great Southern Ocean to the coast of the top end for the purpose of preventing rabbits invading Western Australia from the eastern states. "In Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Pilkington recalls with a searing irony one of the more farcical projects of land management in the newly federated states of Australia.
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