Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
| Author | Doris Pilkington |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Biography |
| Publisher | University of Queensland Press |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Pages | 136 pp |
| ISBN | 0-7022-2709-9 |
| Followed by | Under the Wintamarra Tree |
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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is an Australian book by Doris Pilkington, published in 1996. Based on a true story, the book is a personal account of an Indigenous Australian family of three young girls: Molly (the author's mother), Daisy (Molly's half-sister), and Gracie (their cousin), who experience discrimination due to having a white father. Caught in the company of white stockmen, they are taken to the Moore River internment camp. They leave the settlement in 1931 and trek over 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) home by following the rabbit-proof fence, a massive pest-exclusion fence that crossed Western Australia from north to south.
In 2002, the book was adapted into a film, Rabbit-Proof Fence, which became a centrepiece of the Stolen Generation.