Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 2002 film about the Stolen Generations. The Stolen Generations were half-caste children of aboriginal descent who were “removed” from their families by the Australian Government. The film is based on a true story and follows Molly, Daisy and Gracie Fields, three young aboriginal girls who are attempting to return to their tribal home in Jigalong. We follow them as, guided by the Rabbit-proof Fence, they journey across one-and-a-half thousand miles of unforgiving terrain.
changes to both reflect and maintain an all-encompassing society. This can be seen through the genealogy, history, and construction of the Royal Commission of Bilingualism and Biculturalism (RCBB) and its findings, which reflect a bilingual binary necessary for dynamic multicultural nation that is Canada. Eve Haque illustrates the genealogy of royal commissions through Foucault, who contends that it “operates on a field of entangled and confused parchments, on documents that have been scratched over
parliament for law reform. Three of these influences are Law commissions, Royal commissions and pressure groups. The law commission is the independent body established by the Law Commission Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and recommend reforms when they are needed. The law commission is important because it is the only full-time publicly funded body established for the purpose of law reform. The law commission consists of five commissioners plus support staff. The chairman
children living in ‘insanitary or undesirable’ living conditions should be removed. Although, like previously, this does not set a criterion for the conditions that constitutes as this and thus was left open to interpretation. However, the Moseley Royal Commission (Moseley, 1935), established to ascertain the treatment of aboriginal people, described the aboriginal living conditions in Northern Kimberley as being either in ‘the bush in their natural state’ or in ‘pastoral stations’ with the tribes fashioning
Aboriginal Australians, also referred to as Aborigines, are people whose ancestors were indigenous to the Australian continent (the smallest continent in the world)—that is, to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania. British colonization of the continent began in 1788 when caption cook landed and claimed the land for Britain. Essentially from the first time that Europeans started settling in Australia they have ahead, mistreated, enslaved, and law and policies to limit the rights of aborigines
the Rabbit—Proof Fence (Byrnes, P. n.d.). According to Andrew Bolt (Herald Sun 14 Feb), the girls were taken after Neville received a letter informing him of their situation and that they were in danger (Bolt, A n.d). Speaking before the Moseley Royal Commission in 1934, A.O. Neville himself claimed that the children had not been removed indiscriminately. Molly’s story has indeed been extremely well documented by Mr Neville, The Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia at the time. Andrew
Introduction Cerebrovascular disease or the term stroke is used to describe the effects of an interruption of the blood supply to a localised area of the brain. It is characterized by rapid focal or global impairment of cerebral function lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death (Hatano, 1976). As such it is a clinically defined syndrome and should not be regarded as a single disease. Stroke affects 174-216 people per 10,000 population in the UK per year and accounts for 11% of all deaths in