{"id":2540,"date":"2018-08-13T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2024-02-06T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:55:09","slug":"111-rabbit-proof-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com\/111-rabbit-proof-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"111: Rabbit-Proof Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2540\" class=\"elementor elementor-2540\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-91882c4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"91882c4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-60c3a94\" data-id=\"60c3a94\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f56c997 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"f56c997\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<iframe frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=LEFE9189444870\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd4c140 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"dd4c140\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Did you enjoy this episode? 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Politics &amp; Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Follow_the_Rabbit-Proof_Fence\">Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rabbit-proof_fence\">Rabbit-proof fence &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rabbit-Proof-Fence-Ningali-Lawford\/dp\/B009ZM76J2\">Amazon.com: Rabbit-Proof Fence: Ningali Lawford, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan, Everlyn Sampi: Amazon Digital Services LLC<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0252444\/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl#synopsis\">Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) &#8211; Plot Summary &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/21\/arts\/doris-pilkington-garimara-novelist-is-dead-at-76.html\">Doris Pilkington Garimara, Aboriginal Novelist, Dies at 76 &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-doris-pilkington-garimara-20140420-story.html\">Doris Pilkington Garimara dies; wrote of Australia&#8217;s &#8216;stolen generations&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Doris-Pilkington-Garimara\">Doris Pilkington Garimara | Australian Aboriginal writer | Britannica.com<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/10801790\/Doris-Pilkington-Garimara-obituary.html\">Doris Pilkington Garimara &#8211; obituary &#8211; Telegraph<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/doris-pilkington-garimara-a-fearless-storyteller-20140414-zquic.html\">Doris Pilkington Garimara: A fearless storyteller<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/www.humanrights.gov.au\/education\/bth\/download\/laws\/bth_laws_histnt_10r.pdf\">The History: Northern Territory<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findandconnect.gov.au\/guide\/wa\/WE00406\">Aborigines Act 1905 &#8211; Summary | Find &amp; Connect<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findandconnect.gov.au\/guide\/wa\/WE00403\">Aborigines Protection Act 1886 &#8211; Summary | Find &amp; Connect<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findandconnect.gov.au\/guide\/wa\/WE00405\">Aborigines Act 1897 &#8211; Summary | Find &amp; Connect<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/western-australia\/mooreriver\/2005\/02\/17\/1108500208308.html\">Moore River &#8211; Western Australia &#8211; Australia &#8211; Travel &#8211; smh.com.au<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findandconnect.gov.au\/guide\/wa\/WE00948\">Moore River Native Settlement &#8211; Summary | Find &amp; Connect<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore_River_Native_Settlement\">Moore River Native Settlement &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/32369233\">11 Aug 1931 &#8211; NEWS AND NOTES. &#8211; Trove<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/01\/19\/1074360692045.html?from=storyrhs\">For Molly, the fence was a lifeline &#8211; www.smh.com.au<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3387ed1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3387ed1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Disclaimer: Dan LeFebvre and\/or Based on a True Story may earn commissions from qualifying purchases through our links on this page.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea01e71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ea01e71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Transcript<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a7dfc0f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a7dfc0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Note: This transcript is automatically generated. There will be mistakes, so please don&#8217;t use them for quotes. It is provided for reference use to find things better in the audio.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3764c4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3764c4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 1927, Dr. Cecil Cook said, \u201ceverything necessary [must be done] to convert the half-caste into a white citizen.\u201d<\/p><p>The term \u201chalf-caste\u201d was used during Dr. Cecil\u2019s time for the mixed-raced people in Australia. More specifically, those with one aboriginal parent and one white parent. In most cases, the white parent was a father who had children outside of marriage\u2026often by way of what amounted to rape.<\/p><p>As was all too often in the early 20<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>\u00a0century, the white government saw other races as subpar to their own. As you can probably understand, that term is considered quite offensive for many people today, so I\u2019m going to avoid using from here on out.<\/p><p>I wanted to use that quote, though, because I think helps sum up the Australian government\u2019s position during what we now know as the Stolen Generation.<\/p><p>Dr. Cook\u2019s official title was the Chief Protector of the Aborigines and the Stolen Generation refers to the six decades between 1910 and 1970 when the Australian Government forced mixed-race children to be taken from their families.<\/p><p>It was something a lot of people didn\u2019t know much about for a long time. That started to change in 1996 when an author named Doris Pilkington Garimara helped uncover a story during those years that you\u2019ve probably never heard\u2014a story that almost certainly would\u2019ve been lost to history if it weren\u2019t for Doris\u2019 efforts to save it.<\/p><p>It\u2019s a story we\u2019re going to learn more about today.[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:center&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; shrk_theme_font=&#8221;default&#8221;]Learn the true story behind Rabbit-Proof Fence[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text]The movie begins with some text on screen that sets up our story. We\u2019re in Western Australia in the year 1931. For 100 years, the aboriginal people have resisted the white settlers as they crept further and further into their lands.<\/p><p>Then, a special law called the Aborigines Act added a new level of complexity as it allowed the Australian government the ability to legally control the lives of aborigines. More specifically, according to this opening text in the movie, that power in Western Australia goes to Mr. A. O. Neville as the Chief Protector of Aborigines.<\/p><p>That is all true.<\/p><p>Opening this episode, we heard a quote from Dr. Cecil Cook. He was the Chief Protector of Aborigines for the Northern Territory. So, Mr. A. O. Neville was his counterpart in Western Australia.<\/p><p>Oh, and his full name was Auber Octavius Neville. He\u2019s played by Kenneth Branagh in the movie.<\/p><p>The mention of the Aborigines Act is correct, although the movie doesn\u2019t mention which one it\u2019s referring to. You see, there were multiple acts that all put laws into place for how the Australian government would handle the aboriginal people.<\/p><p>There was the Aboriginal Girls Protection 1844. That law\u2019s full name was, \u201cAn Act to Prevent the Enticing Away the Girls of the aboriginal Race from School or from any Service in which they are Employed.\u201d<\/p><p>Basically, that made it illegal to remove aboriginal girls from either school or work without the consent of either the region\u2019s Protector or the girl\u2019s employer.<\/p><p>Oh, and even though the word \u201cwork\u201d was used in the terminology, it wasn\u2019t like the jobs you and I have today. Basically, it was servitude or straight up slavery.<\/p><p>Then the rights over more than just the girls were given by way of the aborigines Protection Act 1886 which established a Protection Board to appoint Protectors. They, in turn, got to involve themselves in the details of the lives of those they claimed to be protecting.<\/p><p>Then, the Aborigines Act 1897 further expanded the government\u2019s power over the aboriginal people as it gave more rights to the Protection Board and allowed Governors to create new Protectors.<\/p><p>Those three acts were then repealed and rolled into the Aborigines Act 1905, which actually went into effect in April of 1906. It was this law that formed the position of Chief Protector and instantly made that Chief Protector the legal guardian of every aboriginal child aged 16-years and under. Not only that, but it specifically allowed for the Chief Protector to authorize detaining the children in either institutions or in servitude.<\/p><p>Think about that for a moment. The government just made up a law one day that said any child under the age of 16 could be forced into a boarding school where they\u2019d be taught the ways of civilized society\u2014in other words, how to be more like the white society that had moved into their lands. Or, they\u2019d be forced to work\u2014basically, slavery.<\/p><p>What you might find even more surprising about this law is when it was repealed. That happened on July 1<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">st<\/span>, 1964.<\/p><p>Heading back to the movie\u2019s timeline, we\u2019re introduced to the three girls who are the heroes of our story right after seeing the movie\u2019s title. We see Jason Clarke\u2019s character, Constable Riggs, and another policeman watching from the bushes as Everlyn Sampi\u2019s character, Molly, catches a lizard. Alongside Molly we also see Daisy, who\u2019s played by Tianna Sansbury in the movie, and Gracie, who\u2019s played by Laura Monaghan.<\/p><p>In this scene in the film, the three girls are surrounded by their friends and family. Then, Constable Riggs\u2019 horse snorts, alerting someone to the presence of the two policemen.<\/p><p>\u201cMolly, hide the children!\u201d<\/p><p>That whole scene is made up for the movie, but it implies something that is true. By that, what I mean is we can see in the movie the way Molly takes Daisy and Gracie and hides with them without a word. That\u2019s a drill they\u2019ve done before\u2026and, as we already learned, sadly, that sort of thing happened.<\/p><p>Children taken from their families all in the name of protection. The government is doing them a favor by ripping them from their homes.<\/p><p>And that leads us up to the next part in the movie, where we see the three children get taken away.<\/p><p>According to the movie, it happens when see a building with a sign that says Jigalong Depot on it. Constable Riggs is inside. Outside the building, Molly, Daisy and Gracie are chatting with a man who\u2019s working on the rabbit-proof fence.<\/p><p>All of a sudden, a vehicle zooms up. Constable Riggs gets out.<\/p><p>\u201cGracie!\u201d a woman shouts, and the three girls start running.<\/p><p>Riggs hops back in the car and speeds along after them, catching up with the running girls in no time.<\/p><p>Maude, who\u2019s played by Ningali Lawford in the film, is Molly\u2019s mom and sobs, screams and cries as she is forced to witness Riggs put her kids in the car. All the while, Riggs is holding up some paperwork saying, \u201cIt\u2019s the law!\u201d<\/p><p>As Riggs\u2019 car drives away with the three girls inside, all we can hear is Maude and Molly\u2019s grandmother nearby howling and crying. It\u2019s a disturbing scene for any parent, to say the least.<\/p><p>Sadly, the result of the three girls being taken away from their homes is true\u2026but it didn\u2019t happen that way.<\/p><p>Instead, when Constable Riggs showed up at their camp one morning, everyone knew why he was there. They dreaded it, but what could they do? Molly, Daisy and Gracie weren\u2019t the first children to be taken away from their families\u2014and, sadly, they wouldn\u2019t be the last.<\/p><p>They knew why he was there. With heavy hearts and plenty of tears that the girls succumbed to their fate. Molly and Gracie rode Constable Riggs\u2019 horse out of the camp, but Daisy wasn\u2019t there.<\/p><p>So, after taking the two girls back to the Jigalong Depot, Riggs went back out in search of Daisy. Driving his car this time as he was going to take the girls to their final destination, Riggs searched for hours before finally finding Daisy.<\/p><p>This scene was a little more like what we saw in the movie with Gracie\u2019s mother and other women in the camp wailing and crying as they were forced to deal with something they just couldn\u2019t understand\u2014their children being taken away from them.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, the next major plot point happens when we see the girls arrive at their destination. The text on screen says it\u2019s the Moore River Native Settlement, about 1,200 miles south of Jigalong.<\/p><p>That\u2019s about 1,930 kilometers, by the way. Although, to give some geographical context from a bigger city, Moore River is located about 84 miles, or about 135 kilometers, to the north of Perth.<\/p><p>Although the end result was true\u2014they ended up at Moore River Settlement\u2014the way they got there was quite a bit different than what we see in the movie.<\/p><p>The path the movie shows is pretty much Constable Riggs\u2019 car to a truck that drops the girls off at the settlement. In reality, those would\u2019ve been the caps on the ends of the trip. In between, the girls rode a ship along the coast of Western Australia\u2014all the while marveling at the sights and sounds of places and things they\u2019d never seen before.<\/p><p>Even though being taken away from their families was a horrible and scary thing, they were still young girls who were in awe of much of the world outside what they\u2019d known up to that point. Their curiosity got the better of them, and for lack of a better term\u2014one might say their trip to Moore River was quite pleasant.<\/p><p>That would change once they got there.<\/p><p>Now, the movie doesn\u2019t talk about the Moore River Settlement much at all, but that was a real place. Let\u2019s fill in some of the backstory the movie skips.<\/p><p>Moore River got its name from a man named George Moore, who was the first European to discover the area. He named the river after himself in 1836. It wasn\u2019t until 80 years later, though, that the settlement was built near the river.<\/p><p>That\u2019s 1916, by the way.<\/p><p>And that\u2019s when Moore River Native Settlement, as it was officially called, started in a way that might seem as innocently as ever. It was originally built to be a farm that would provide jobs for aborigines while simultaneously bringing the families in so the kids could get an education.<\/p><p>The idea was that the adults would work on the farm, there would be a hospital and a school for their kids.<\/p><p>Doesn\u2019t sound too bad, right?<\/p><p>But, as the settlement was established, those original ideas turned out to be nothing more than a cover. The children at Moore River weren\u2019t the kids of the adults. The adults there were ones deemed as troublesome, so the government could keep an eye on them.<\/p><p>Basically, it was a prison camp without the name.<\/p><p>As the years dragged on, conditions in the camp deteriorated. People were forced into the camp, there was hardly enough food to go around for the inmates\u2014they didn\u2019t call them that, of course\u2014and by the time our story takes place in the 1930s, things were downright horrible.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, there\u2019s no indication of time, but soon after we see the three girls arrive at Moore River, a girl named Olive tries to run away. She\u2019s caught by a tracker named Moodoo. He\u2019s played by David Gulpilil.<\/p><p>After Olive is brought back to the camp, she\u2019s placed in a small room that Nina, another one of the girls telling Molly what\u2019s going on, calls the boob. Going in behind her is the camp\u2019s overseer, Mr. Neal. He\u2019s carrying a whip. We don\u2019t see what happens inside the small room, but Olive\u2019s screams make it pretty clear what\u2019s happening.<\/p><p>That\u2019s not true. Well, sort of. Olive wasn\u2019t a real girl\u2014at least not one that I could find any documentation of being there at the same time as Molly, Daisy and Gracie.<\/p><p>While the specifics of these scenes aren\u2019t true, but they\u2019re more of a composite scene of what life was like for the three girls after they arrived at Moore River.<\/p><p>So, even though the movie doesn\u2019t indicate timing, it was on July 26<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 1931 when the three girls set sail on a ship to head to the settlement at Moore River. They arrived about a week or so later, in early August.<\/p><p>While they were there, they did witness a girl being locked up in the \u201cboob\u201d like we saw happen in the movie. It wasn\u2019t for running away, though, but rather for swearing at a teacher.<\/p><p>Oh, and the kid\u2019s name who was locked up in there was named Violet, not Olive.<\/p><p>What the kids called the \u201cboob\u201d was a small, one-room cement block building. It was used as isolation for children who did something wrong. The girl who Molly saw get locked up in there\u2014her name was Violet, by the way, not Olive like we see in the movie.<\/p><p>Violet got locked up in there for two days for swearing at the teacher. The three girls heard other stories of children who tried to run away getting locked up for a whole week.<\/p><p>Speaking of which, we see this moment in the movie when Molly wakes up one day and tells Daisy and Gracie that they\u2019re going to go home. There\u2019s a storm in the distance, and Molly says they can use that to cover their tracks, so they won\u2019t get caught.<\/p><p>As the rest of the children head to the church for a service, instead of joining everyone else like she\u2019s been asked to do after disposing of the waste bucket, Molly leads the three girls away from Moore River.<\/p><p>The basic gist of that is true, but there\u2019s some changes.<\/p><p>Let\u2019s start with the weather. There also wasn\u2019t a massive storm off in the distance like we saw in the movie. It was raining, bit it was more of a drizzle than a downpour.<\/p><p>The rest of the children weren\u2019t going to the church for a service. At least, that\u2019s what I\u2019m assuming it was in the movie when we see everyone singing a song in the church.<\/p><p>Instead, Molly and the two others purposely lagged behind to empty the bucket while the rest of the children left for school. The movie doesn\u2019t really mention how much time is passing, but Molly, Daisy and Gracie ran away the day after they arrived.<\/p><p>Once they had the chance, the three girls made their way toward home. Another difference between the movie and real life was that the plan all along was to find the rabbit-proof fence. That\u2019s how they were going to find home. Find the rabbit-proof fence and follow it to Jigalong.<\/p><p>Oh, and remember earlier when we learned there wasn\u2019t a storm off in the distance to cover their tracks? That\u2019s an important point because, while there was a tracker at Moore River who had found other children who had run away, the character of Moodoo that we see in the movie is a fictional one.<\/p><p>And with that, you probably have a good idea of how accurate the specifics are for the scenes we see where Moodoo is tracking the three girls very closely.<\/p><p>I say the specifics because even though Moodoo wasn\u2019t real, his character was more of a composite character. Not necessarily all at the same time, but there were many people who were trying to find the three missing girls.<\/p><p>In the movie, we see these efforts to recover the girls come from Mr. Neville himself back in Perth.<\/p><p>And that\u2019s true. As the Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, it was Mr. Neville who ordered policemen to try to find them.<\/p><p>Heading back in the movie, there\u2019s a scene where we see Molly sneaking into a chicken coop to steal some eggs. She gets caught by a woman living in the nearby house, and after coaxing out of Molly that she\u2019s not alone, the three girls come to the house. There, the woman gives them food and coats to combat against the cold nights.<\/p><p>That\u2019s true, but it didn\u2019t happen how the movie shows.<\/p><p>You see, as the girls were traveling they got, understandably, really hungry. They did their best to find food here and there, for example, they did stumble upon a man who gave them some matches so they managed to kill and cook some rabbits. But there was only so much they could find.<\/p><p>Probably the closest to what we saw in the movie happened when they found a farmhouse. It was Daisy and Gracie who approached it. There wasn\u2019t a chicken coop. The plan wasn\u2019t to steal eggs. It was always to approach the house and ask for some food.<\/p><p>And, it worked.<\/p><p>The woman, a Mrs. Flanagan, asked Daisy and Gracie to call Molly to come, too\u2014she knew about the three girls already from news reports. The three girls ate until they\u2019d been filled, then filling some brown, paper bags with food and she send the three girls on their way.<\/p><p>What the girls didn\u2019t know at the time is after they left, Mrs. Flanagan decided to call Mr. Neal back at Moore River. She seemed to think it was what\u2019s best for them. And, as horrible as the conditions were at Moore River, I can still understand Mrs. Flanagan\u2019s position.<\/p><p>After all, it\u2019s not likely she knew the conditions were that bad there. All she knew was that three girls were out in the wilderness\u2014they certainly couldn\u2019t last that long out there alone. Calling the authorities was the right thing to do, in her mind.<\/p><p>Oh, and it was in this scene, according to the movie, that Molly gets the idea to follow the rabbit-proof fence.<\/p><p>Well, as we already learned, that part isn\u2019t true\u2014Molly had the idea to follow the fence before they left Moore River. But, Mrs. Flanagan did help point them in the right direction after Molly told her they were planning on using the rabbit-proof fence to get to Jigalong.<\/p><p>That\u2019s information she likely relayed when she reported their position.<\/p><p>As a little side note, the rabbit-proof fence itself was built between 1901 and 1907. The purpose of the fence, as the name implies, was to keep rabbits out of Western Australia\u2019s farmland.<\/p><p>You see, rabbits aren\u2019t native to Australia. They\u2019re one of the animals the British brought with them. Before long, rabbits thrived. They grew to be a problem for farmers, and so the fence was built to try to keep them out.<\/p><p>As the movie mentions at one point, there\u2019s three different fences. The No. 1 fence stretches from the northern coast of Australia all the way to the southern coast. As you can probably guess, that\u2019s the one that was built first.<\/p><p>It didn\u2019t solve the problem. So, they built the No. 2 fence on the western side of the No. 1 fence. Finally, the No. 3 fence was added. That one runs east-west instead of north-south like the No. 1 fence.<\/p><p>Overall, the three fences are about 2,023 miles long. That\u2019s about 3,256 kilometers. Simply put, it was a massive undertaking. It provided a lot of jobs in the area, both for the building of the fence and the maintenance of it. People would have to go up and down the fence to mend it when it\u2019d break due to weather, animals or anything else that\u2019ll break a fence in the wilderness.<\/p><p>Back in the movie, there\u2019s a scene where we hear Nina reading from the paper to the remaining children in the dormitory at Moore River. As she reads, the children add their own commentary. Starting the article, Nina says, \u201cThe Chief Protector of Aborigines, Mr. A. O. Neville\u2026\u201d<\/p><p>The children interject, \u201cDevil!\u201d<\/p><p>Nina laughs, continuing, \u201c\u2026is concerned about three native girls aged eight to 14 who, a month ago, escaped from the Moore River settlement\u2026\u201d<\/p><p>This time the children cheer, \u201cYay!\u201d<\/p><p>The article finishes up with an interesting mention of the only thing the authorities being able to find being a rabbit, which the girls tried to eat.<\/p><p>That article is real, although interestingly there were some details changed. For example, the article says the girls were aged eight to 15, and there\u2019s no mention of them escaping a month ago. Maybe they changed that to give a timeline in the film.<\/p><p>And perhaps calling it an article is a bit much. It was no more than a couple paragraphs. This was published on August 11<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/span>, 1931 in the News and Notes section of The West Australian paper out of Perth:<\/p><p><em>Missing Native Girls.<\/em><\/p><p><em>The Chief Protector of Aborigines (Mr. A. O. Neville) is concerned about three native girls, ranging from eight to 15 years of age, who, a week ago, ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, Mogumber. They came in from the Nullagine district recently, Mr. Neville said yesterday, and, being very timid, were scared by their new quarters, apparently, and fled in the hope of getting back home. Some people saw them passing New Norcia, when they seemed to be making northeast. The children would probably keep away from habitations and he would be grateful if any person who saw them would notify him promptly. \u201cWe have been searching high and low for the children for a week past,\u201d added Mr. Neville, \u201cand all the trace we found of them was a dead rabbit which they had been trying to eat. We are very anxious that no harm may come to them in the bush.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p>As for the mention of the dead rabbit, there\u2019s hardly enough details in the article to know for sure what it\u2019s referring to. But there was an incident where Gracie killed a rabbit.<\/p><p>She was scolded by Molly, who reminded Gracie they didn\u2019t have any way of making a fire\u2014so they couldn\u2019t cook the rabbit. Hungry, frustrated and disappointed, Gracie threw the rabbit to the side after failing to find a way to gut the animal.<\/p><p>Going back to the movie, probably one of the closest calls happens when the girls find another aboriginal woman doing laundry. She remembers being in Moore River, and wants to help the girl. Mavis is her name. She tells the girls to stay out of sight for now, but she\u2019ll return with food\u2014they can stay with her tonight.<\/p><p>The next scene we see is the girls in Mavis\u2019 servant\u2019s quarters. It\u2019s a building detached from the farmhouse. The three girls are laying in the bed when someone comes in. It\u2019s not Mavis. It\u2019s a white man, who we find out later is named Mr. Paul Evans. He takes off his boots, pants and starts to get into the bed when he pulls back the covers and sees the three girls.<\/p><p>Shocked, he grabs his boots, pants and rushes out the door.<\/p><p>The girls are about to leave themselves when Mavis comes in. \u201cPlease, if you leave he\u2019ll come back. He won\u2019t say anything!\u201d<\/p><p>The three girls stay with Mavis that night until, in the dead of night, they\u2019re woken up by the sound of a car. When it arrives, Moodoo and some policemen get out. Mavis wakes up the three girls, and they just barely make it to the brush before they arrive at the servant\u2019s quarters.<\/p><p>None of that is true.<\/p><p>As far as I could tell, Mavis wasn\u2019t a real person. The girls never befriended a servant who was forced to sleep with her boss\u2014owner, whatever they called it.<\/p><p>We can get a sense for what\u2019s going on between Mavis and Mr. Evans in the movie. Even the man, Mr. Evans, isn\u2019t someone who showed up in my research at all.<\/p><p>Of course, that\u2019s a common name. So, while that particular story is tough to verify, that doesn\u2019t mean the three girls didn\u2019t have some close calls.<\/p><p>Probably one of the closest calls was another scene in the movie where we see the three girls become two.<\/p><p>According to the movie, Gracie finds out her mom is in Wiluna, so she decides to try to find her by taking a train there. Molly and Daisy advise her against it, but she insists. So, they split up for a few hours. Finally, Molly and Daisy decide to go back for Gracie.<\/p><p>They find her sitting alone at a train station. Just as they get her attention, a vehicle appears. It catches up to Gracie, and out hops a policeman who, helped by another man on a bike, snatch Gracie and put her into the back seat of the car.<\/p><p>As the car drives away, Gracie looks out as Molly and Daisy watch on helplessly from behind a pile of railroad ties. After she\u2019s gone, Molly buries her head in the dirt before letting the tears flow.<\/p><p>The end result is true, but that\u2019s not exactly how it happened.<\/p><p>It is true that Gracie found out her mom was in Wiluna. And, as far as I could tell, she actually was at the time. After Gracie was taken, her mom was so fed up by her husband\u2019s inaction at taking Gracie away, she packed up and moved to Wiluna. She believed that because her husband was white, he could\u2019ve done more than he did\u2014and since he did nothing, that\u2019s probably true.<\/p><p>So, after hearing that\u2019s where she was, Gracie decided to try to go there instead of Jigalong. It was probably a mixture of longing for home and being exhausted and tired of walking, but Gracie had made up in her mind that the best way to do that was to go to a nearby train station in Meekatharra and hop a ride to Wiluna.<\/p><p>Molly and Daisy tried their best to change her mind. It didn\u2019t work.<\/p><p>Like the movie showed, for a while, Molly and Daisy continued on without Gracie. They never turned back for her like we saw in the movie. But, Gracie wasn\u2019t caught at the train station like we saw in the movie.<\/p><p>In truth, she took the train to Wiluna. When she got there, though, her mom was nowhere to be found. Turns out she wasn\u2019t in Wiluna anymore.<\/p><p>Unfortunately, it was here where Gracie was recognized as being one of the runaways. She pretended to be a girl named Lucy from Jigalong, but it didn\u2019t work\u2014on Neville\u2019s order, she was taken back to Moore River.<\/p><p>As the movie comes to a close, we see Molly and Daisy finally make it home. There are tears of joy as they make their way back to Jigalong\u2014to their mother, Maude.<\/p><p>We see Mr. Neville dictate a level that suggests they don\u2019t have the funds to keep pursuing the children. At some point, perhaps, they\u2019ll apprehend them, but for now the chase is off.<\/p><p>It\u2019s a happy ending for the children.<\/p><p>And that\u2019s true.<\/p><p>We don\u2019t really know for sure what the exact moments were like when Maude saw her daughter for the first time since she was forced to leave. I think it\u2019s safe to say there probably were plenty of tears\u2014happy tears.<\/p><p>As for the mentions in the movie of not having the funds to pursue them, again, that\u2019s true. I\u2019m sure they could\u2019ve come up with them if they\u00a0<em>really\u00a0<\/em>wanted to, but Mr. Neville wasn\u2019t too happy about all of the extra costs his department had incurred in trying to recapture the girls.<\/p><p>In his mind, no doubt, he thought he was doing the girls a service by trying to incorporate them into white culture\u2014even if it was as servants.<\/p><p>At the end of the movie, we hear Molly\u2019s voiceover as she explains the trip took nine weeks. After arriving home, they hid in the desert. She grew up, had two girls of her own. Later, she was taken with her kids back to Moore River\u2014where she made the trip yet again from Moore River to Jigalong.<\/p><p>Amazingly, that\u2019s true.<\/p><p>The journey that Molly, Daisy and Gracie took in 1931 lasted nine weeks. They left in August, arriving in October\u2014that\u2019s the same month Gracie was recaptured, too. While their trip wasn\u2019t a straight line, and the three children didn\u2019t track their path exactly, the trek from Moore River to Jigalong is roughly 1,000 miles away. That\u2019s about 1,600 kilometers.<\/p><p>A combination of Mr. Neville\u2019s department running low on funds and Maude taking her family into hiding in the desert helped keep them out of government hands for quite some time.<\/p><p>Nine years later, in 1940, Molly had surgery in Perth for appendicitis. Her two daughters went with her, and afterward the three were taken to Moore River. Molly asked if they could return home, but they weren\u2019t allowed to leave.<\/p><p>So, on January 1<span style=\"font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">st<\/span>, 1940, Molly took Annabelle, the youngest of her two children, along with her as she walked the same route she took as a child herself. A few months later, she arrived safely in Jigalong with Annabelle.<\/p><p>Molly\u2019s other daughter, Doris, stayed at Moore River. She didn\u2019t see her mom again until 1962, when she tracked Molly down. It was then that Doris decided to tell her mom\u2019s amazing story, which led to the book\u00a0<em>Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence\u00a0<\/em>that the movie was based on.<\/p><p>Sadly, Gracie never saw Jigalong again. She married, having six children before passing away in 1983. Molly and Daisy, on the other hand, lived out the rest of their days in Jigalong.<\/p><p>In January of 2002, a truck arrived in Jigalong for the two girls. This truck wasn\u2019t going to take the girls away, though. Out hopped some workers, who blew up a screen and hooked up the truck\u2019s projector.<\/p><p>Molly and Daisy watched their very first movie\u2014the world premiere of\u00a0<em>Rabbit-Proof Fence<\/em>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you enjoy this episode? Help support the next one! Buy me a coffee Resources Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) &#8211; IMDb Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence &#8211; Kindle edition by Doris Pilkington. Politics &amp; Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. 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