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"In Rabbit Proof Fence, white society is presented as ignorant and narrow-minded" Discuss. Phillip Noyce's film as text Rabbit Proof Fence explores the concept of the political and racial debate of the stolen generation, where the Australian Government implemented a policy which allowed half-caste children to be removed from their parents and trained to be domestic servants and farm laborers. The stolen generation policy was enforced in Australia from the early 1900's to 1970 and aimed to "breed out the Aboriginality" in half-caste children and thus remove a "third unwanted race". In the film, we witness the true epic journey of "three half-cast children; Molly, Daisy and their cousin Gracie" who in 1931 were removed from their mothers and "transported to Moore River Native Settlement". The girls, however, escape Moore River and defying all odds return to their family 1500 miles away using only Australia's continent spanning rabbit proof fence as...

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