RABBIT PROOF FENCE
Intro
From 2002, historic drama set in Australia circa
1930s
Mostly filmed on location
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Western Australia
6
th
largest continent, state
& continent
Sparsely populated 22-23 million people
Mostly in the east
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Taken over by the British
Western Australia
Less and less anything
Australia is mostly very dry or full on desert
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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.
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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?
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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
