Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

The arts community has used film as a platform to depict this apparent genocide in Australia. In 2002, an Australian multiple-award winning film “Rabbit-Proof Fence”, based on the book “Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence” by Doris Pilkington Garimara, told the story of the author's mother and two other young mixed-race Aboriginal girls who ran away from Moore River Native Settlement, north of Perth, in order to return to their Aboriginal families.

In a subsequent interview with the ABC, Doris recalled her removal from her mother at age three or four, arriving at the settlement in 1931. She was not reunited with her mother until she was 25 and, until that time, she believed that her mother had given her away. When they were reunited, Doris was unable to speak her native language and had been taught to regard Indigenous culture as evil.