Publisher Description

Three Aboriginal girls are forcibly removed from their outback families in 1931 to be trained as domestic servants as part of official government policy. They escape and begin a 1500-mile journey home using a rabbit-proof fence as their guide, with the authorities chasing them all the way. Winner of a NSW Premier's Award for Script Writing and a Community Relations Commission Award, the screenplay is adapted from Doris Pilkington Garimara's book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which is based on her mother's true story.Minimum order 20 copies.

Author Biography

CHRISTINE OLSEN was born and educated in New Zealand. She worked as a radio producer for Radio Television Hong Kong until 1985, when she moved to Australia and began working in documentary film. Her production credits include the three-part television series Riding the Tiger and Hephzibah, which won two AFI awards including Best Documentary and the Silver Wolf Award for Best Documentary in Amsterdam. Rabbit-Proof Fence, which she wrote and produced, was her first feature script.

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