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RABBIT PROOF FENCE
Intro
 From 2002, historic drama set in Australia circa
1930s
 Mostly filmed on location
o Western Australia  6 th largest continent, state
& continent
 Sparsely populated 22-23 million people
 Mostly in the east
o Taken over by the British
 Western Australia
 Less and less anything
 Australia is mostly very dry or full on desert
o Most is full on deserts
 Sandy, Victorian
 Our film is mostly the Gibson desert
 Change in climate and vegetation as girls travel
north from the costal area to the interior.
o Goes from wetter, lush humid subtropical to
more Mediterranean-style chaparral
vegetation to more dried-out savanna-style
grassland scrub to full on desert
 Fence?
o Australian drama based on book Follow The
Rabbit Proof Fence
 Based on a true story of the author’s
mother’s life

 Why were they taken?  how aboriginals
(half-cast)
 State gave themselves the right to
take away the children and put them