![]() ![]() (Brent Bignell/European Pressphoto Agency) The cause was ovarian cancer, Australian press reports said. Neville, was based on the book "Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence" (1996), by Doris Pilkington Garimara, who died at 76 on April 10 in Perth, Australia. The movie, which starred Kenneth Branagh as Mr. The effort, little-known outside Australia, drew newfound attention when the movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence" came out in 2002, telling the story of a young girl who was taken from her family, escaped from a government re-education camp, and with two other girls walked for nine weeks through harsh desert, with only plants and small animals to eat, to reunite with her mother in their hometown. Neville, chief protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, asked in 1937. "Are we going to have a population of one million blacks in the Commonwealth, or are we going to merge them into our white community and eventually forget there ever were any Aborigines in Australia?" A. Mixed-race aboriginal children were taken from their families and forbidden to speak their native language. In the 1930s, Australian authorities undertook a campaign to force the native Aborigines into white culture, with the hope that intermarriage would eventually eliminate their race. ![]() Doris Pilkington Garimara 1937 - 2014 (Sydney Morning Herald)ĭouglas Martin The New York Times 20 April 2013Ĭredit Brent Bignell/European Pressphoto Agency ![]()
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