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Christopher Hawkes on Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Arena Magazine
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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 ...
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