0:01:00 > 0:01:03WOMAN SPEAKS IN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE
0:02:37 > 0:02:40BIRD CALLS
0:03:01 > 0:03:05BIRD CALLS
0:03:15 > 0:03:17CHILDREN LAUGH
0:04:21 > 0:04:22Grrr!
0:04:22 > 0:04:24THEY LAUGH
0:04:26 > 0:04:27- That's them.- >
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Yeah.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30- Molly's the big one.- >
0:04:30 > 0:04:32- The little one's- > - her sister Daisy.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34- The middle one's- > - their cousin Gracie.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Well, what about the fathers?
0:04:39 > 0:04:41Moved on.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44CHILDREN SHOUT EXCITEDLY
0:04:44 > 0:04:45- WOMAN:- Bring it here.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23CLOCK BELL CHIMES
0:05:37 > 0:05:39KNOCK AT DOOR
0:05:40 > 0:05:43- WOMAN:- The next batch.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Nothing out of the ordinary.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48There's two applications for section 63 exemptions.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Police reports are there.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53William Harris is applying for permission to marry.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55She's half-caste also.
0:05:55 > 0:05:56And Mary Wilson's applying
0:05:56 > 0:05:59for permission to visit her child at Moore River.
0:06:01 > 0:06:03She's quite agitated.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07Oh, and Gladys Phillips
0:06:07 > 0:06:09has written for permission to buy some new shoes.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12She had a new pair a year ago.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15Er, now, this report from Constable Riggs
0:06:15 > 0:06:17about three little half-caste girls
0:06:17 > 0:06:20at the Jigalong fence depot - Molly, Gracie and Daisy.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22The youngest is of particular concern.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25She is promised to a full-blood.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27I'm authorising their removal.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30They're to be taken to Moore River as soon as possible.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Oh, and Miss Thomas,
0:06:34 > 0:06:37if you could check that the rate for police transportation
0:06:37 > 0:06:40is still, I believe, eight pence per mile.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43- Yes, Mr Neville. - Thank you.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50RINGS CHIME
0:06:54 > 0:06:57EERIE SILENCE
0:07:02 > 0:07:05DOGS BARK
0:07:10 > 0:07:14That country over there, that's Wongi country.
0:07:14 > 0:07:15You can't go there.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18You get big trouble.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Yeah, I know.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Where your country?
0:07:26 > 0:07:27My country?
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Down south.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Long way from here.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Our dad works there on the rabbit fence.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Yeah?
0:07:41 > 0:07:43How far does rabbit fence go to?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48The rabbit-proof fence?
0:07:50 > 0:07:53It goes all the way to the sea down that way.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56Right to the top of Australia.
0:07:56 > 0:07:57Longest fence in the world.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01And all the way to the sea down that way.
0:08:03 > 0:08:051,500 miles long.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Keeps the rabbits on that side of the fence.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10Keeps the farmland on this side of the fence.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19That Molly's getting to be a big girl.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23Mr Neville's been writing to me about those girls, you know.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Frankie...
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Come on, it's your turn.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Come and get your rations.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47- ANIMAL BELLOWS - Hurry up.
0:08:50 > 0:08:53CAR APPROACHES
0:09:01 > 0:09:04CAMEL BELLOWS
0:09:04 > 0:09:05DRAMATIC MUSIC
0:09:06 > 0:09:09WOMEN YELL
0:09:31 > 0:09:34WOMEN SHOUT
0:09:34 > 0:09:36Come for the three girls, Maude.
0:09:36 > 0:09:37NO!
0:09:37 > 0:09:39This is my kids! MINE!
0:09:39 > 0:09:41- It's the law, Maude. - SCREAMS:- No!
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- Got no say in it. - No! Mine!
0:09:43 > 0:09:46ALL YELL
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Move one inch and I'll lock your mother up!
0:09:51 > 0:09:54Neville's their legal guardian.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57MOLLY: Get away from us! Go!
0:09:57 > 0:09:59No!
0:09:59 > 0:10:02Daisy!
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- CRIES:- Give me back my Daisy!
0:10:04 > 0:10:06You sit up and you stay!
0:10:06 > 0:10:09- I've got the papers, Maude! - SHE SCREAMS
0:10:09 > 0:10:12- Don't take them! No! - You've got no say in it!
0:10:12 > 0:10:14- SCREAMS:- No!
0:10:19 > 0:10:21SHE CRIES
0:10:26 > 0:10:30Hear this - don't move!
0:10:30 > 0:10:34WAILING
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Nothing you can do here, old girl!
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- WOMAN SPEAKS ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE - Nothing you can do.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41MAUDE SCREAMS: Leave them!
0:10:41 > 0:10:43CHILD WAILS
0:10:43 > 0:10:46MUSIC INTENSIFIES
0:11:04 > 0:11:05SILENCE
0:11:09 > 0:11:12WOMEN WAIL
0:11:27 > 0:11:30NEVILLE: As you know, every Aborigine born in this State
0:11:30 > 0:11:31comes under my control.
0:11:32 > 0:11:36Notice, if you will, the half-caste child.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38And there are ever-increasing numbers of them.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Now, what is to happen to them?
0:11:41 > 0:11:46Are we to allow the creation of an unwanted third race?
0:11:46 > 0:11:49Should coloureds be encouraged to go back to the black?
0:11:49 > 0:11:52Or should they be advanced to white status
0:11:52 > 0:11:56and be absorbed in the white population?
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Now, time and again, I'm asked by some white man,
0:11:58 > 0:12:00"If I marry this coloured person,
0:12:00 > 0:12:02"will our children be black?"
0:12:02 > 0:12:04And as Chief Protector of Aborigines,
0:12:04 > 0:12:05it is my responsibility
0:12:05 > 0:12:07to accept or reject those marriages.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Here is the answer.
0:12:16 > 0:12:18Three generations.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20Half-blood grandmother.
0:12:20 > 0:12:21Quadroon daughter.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Octoroon grandson.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26Now, as you can see, in the third generation,
0:12:26 > 0:12:27or third cross,
0:12:27 > 0:12:31no trace of native origin is apparent.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34The continuing infiltration of white blood
0:12:34 > 0:12:37finally stamps out the black colour.
0:12:37 > 0:12:43The Aboriginal has simply been bred out.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Now...
0:12:46 > 0:12:48..we come to...
0:12:51 > 0:12:54We come to the Moore River Native Settlement.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Ladies, most of you are familiar with our work here -
0:12:56 > 0:12:59the training of domestic servants and farm labourers.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02I would like to thank you for your continuing support.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Hundreds of half-caste children
0:13:04 > 0:13:06have been gathered up and brought here
0:13:06 > 0:13:08to be given the benefit
0:13:08 > 0:13:10of everything our culture has to offer.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16For if we are to fit and train such children for the future,
0:13:16 > 0:13:19they cannot be left as they are.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21And, in spite of himself,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24the native must be helped.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27LOUD CLANGING
0:14:04 > 0:14:07WOMEN HUM
0:14:11 > 0:14:14TRAIN RATTLES
0:14:25 > 0:14:28TRUCK RATTLES
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Hello, there.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59- ALL GASP WHISPERS:- A ghost!
0:14:59 > 0:15:02HAUNTING MUSIC
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Poor dears.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Such a long way. You must be exhausted.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Come along - I'll take you straight to the dormitory.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Quickly. It's all right.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Come on.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24Down you hop.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Come along.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38Follow me.
0:15:38 > 0:15:39Come along.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Follow me, please.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46That's the way.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49HAUNTING MUSIC
0:15:55 > 0:15:57Come along.
0:16:03 > 0:16:04There's some beds there.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06The bucket's in the corner.
0:16:06 > 0:16:07Hurry up.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13WHISPERING
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Back to sleep, the rest of you.
0:16:16 > 0:16:18No talking.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26SILENCE
0:16:32 > 0:16:33CLANGING
0:16:34 > 0:16:37KNOCKING
0:16:37 > 0:16:41BELL RINGS
0:16:41 > 0:16:42- GIRL SHOUTS: - Get up!
0:16:42 > 0:16:44All of youse! Make your beds!
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Hurry up!
0:16:50 > 0:16:54Irene, Cheryl, stop running around.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57Get them blankets tidy.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04What's your name?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Where you from?
0:17:08 > 0:17:11- ALL GIGGLE - You'll get used to it.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Tracker girl, get that bucket. Take it out now!
0:17:15 > 0:17:18What are you standing there dreamin' about?
0:17:18 > 0:17:19Hurry up!
0:17:23 > 0:17:25Move!
0:17:27 > 0:17:29Get out to breakfast now!
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Come on!
0:17:31 > 0:17:32Go, all of you!
0:17:38 > 0:17:39Come on.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41You coming?
0:17:59 > 0:18:03Thank you, children. Ready for our prayers.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Bow your heads.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Eyes closed.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11ALL: Thank you For the food we eat
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Thank you for the world so sweet
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Thank you for the birds that sing
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Thank you, God, for everything.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26There will be no talking.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36SPEAKS ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE
0:18:36 > 0:18:38- BANG! - We'll have no wangka here!
0:18:38 > 0:18:41You talk English!
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Now eat!
0:18:44 > 0:18:47EAT! Or I'll hold your nose and force it down you!
0:18:47 > 0:18:51Here. Keep still.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54We've got to scrub you.
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Let me see.
0:18:58 > 0:18:59Doesn't that feel better?
0:18:59 > 0:19:02- Yes, Miss Jessop. - Yes, Miss Jessop.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- Thank you, Miss Jessop. - Thank you, Miss Jessop.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07That is much better.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Here.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23Take it.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Put these on.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31Come on. Get dressed.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40This is your new home. We don't use that jabber here.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42You speak English.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49CHILDREN SING: # Way down Upon the Swanee river
0:19:49 > 0:19:53# Far, far away
0:19:53 > 0:19:57# There's where my heart is turning ever
0:19:57 > 0:20:00# There's where the old folks stay... #
0:20:00 > 0:20:02WHISPERS: What are they doing?
0:20:02 > 0:20:03Singing Mr Devil's favourite song.
0:20:03 > 0:20:05Who?
0:20:05 > 0:20:06Singing Mr Devil's favourite song.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Who's that?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10The one on the end, on the chair.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12# ..longing for the old plantation
0:20:12 > 0:20:15# And for the old folks at home. #
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Very good. Well done.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28The following children will come forward -
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Tommy Grant.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36This way, Tommy. Here.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Come on. Stand up straight.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42- Whoo, hold, boy. - Tommy.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46What are they doing now?
0:20:46 > 0:20:49They checkin' for the fair ones.
0:20:50 > 0:20:51Why?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53They gotta take them to Sister Kate's.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56They're more clever than us.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58They can go to proper school.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Thank you. No.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Molly Craig.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09That you.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15- Molly Craig! - Go on, get up.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Hurry up, they'll whip you.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23- Molly, come on, dear. - Get up.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25- Quick. - Come on, young lady.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27They'll put you in the boob, hurry up.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Come on.
0:21:34 > 0:21:36Just Molly, please.
0:21:36 > 0:21:37Where you goin'? Come back here.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- Sit down. - Hurry up.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Come along.
0:21:45 > 0:21:46It's all right.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51That's the way.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Don't be afraid.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Come along.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Come on, I'm not going to hurt you.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01See.
0:22:01 > 0:22:02A bit further.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05That's it.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08It's Molly, isn't it?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11I know it all feels very strange,
0:22:11 > 0:22:14but after a few days you'll feel quite at home.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16BREATHES HEAVILY
0:22:16 > 0:22:17We're here to help,
0:22:17 > 0:22:19and encourage you in this new world.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Duty, service, responsibility.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Those are our watchwords.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32- Molly, keep still. - It's all right, it's all right.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34It's all right.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54No.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58BABY CRIES
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Over here. Sweep it over here.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02To the door.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Come on, this way.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Push it towards me.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Eh, tracker's come back.
0:23:16 > 0:23:17Eh, tracker girl.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Your dad's bringin' Olive back.
0:23:20 > 0:23:21Catched her.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27DIDGERIDOO PLAYS
0:23:41 > 0:23:45Thank you, Moodoo. Stand there, young lady.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48Did you really think you'd get away with it?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- GIRL WHIMPERS - Now stop that crying.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52See what Miss Doyle has here?
0:23:52 > 0:23:53Olive, look at me.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56You see this here? The scissors?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59Did she run away home?
0:23:59 > 0:24:03She ran away to see her boyfriend.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- DOG YELPS - Come on.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08Let's see if those boys at New Norcia
0:24:08 > 0:24:10find you so attractive now.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13- GIRL WHIMPERS - Go.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17DOG YELPS
0:24:17 > 0:24:21- WHIPS OLIVE REPEATEDLY - Argh! Argh!
0:24:25 > 0:24:28She broke out through here.
0:24:28 > 0:24:31Usual story - off to see her boyfriend at New Norcia.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34- Mmm. - The tracker brought her back.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35Ah, yes, Moodoo.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38Mr Neal tells me that your probation period is up,
0:24:38 > 0:24:42and that you wish to return to the Kimberleys, is that right?
0:24:46 > 0:24:48Of course, your daughter is here, isn't she?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55There would be no question of her going.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58She would have to stay here and continue her training.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02I think for the time being,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04it would be best for all concerned
0:25:04 > 0:25:06if you were to remain here, Moodoo.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10I'd be prepared to consider your case in a year or so,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13but, er, until then...
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Now, about those little ones from Kalgoorlie.
0:25:21 > 0:25:25Those babies - where their mothers?
0:25:25 > 0:25:27They got no mothers.
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Nobody here got any mothers.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39I got mother.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Come on, they're lining up. Let's go.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04BELL RINGS
0:26:10 > 0:26:13WHIMPERS
0:26:13 > 0:26:15SOBS AND WHIMPERS
0:27:03 > 0:27:06WHISPERS: Bad place.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Make me sick.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21These people.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Sick.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30Make me sick.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57- BELL RINGS - Come on, make your beds!
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Nice and tidy!
0:27:59 > 0:28:02If you've already done it, get to the church now.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Hurry up!
0:28:04 > 0:28:06Stop dawdling.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Molly, take the bucket out.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Now, the three of you, go up to the church.
0:28:17 > 0:28:21Come on, you kids, get up there, you're late!
0:28:21 > 0:28:23Hurry up!
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Now! Now!
0:28:25 > 0:28:27BELL RINGS
0:28:29 > 0:28:32THUNDER CRACKS AND RUMBLES
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Come on, get your things. We're going!
0:28:39 > 0:28:40Where we going?
0:28:40 > 0:28:43We're going home, to Mother.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48How we gonna get there?
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Walk.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54We're not going. Are we, Daisy?
0:28:54 > 0:28:55We like it here.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58That tracker, he's gonna get us and put us in that room.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00They're not gonna get us.
0:29:00 > 0:29:03We'll just keep walking. The rain'll cover our tracks.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04We gotta go now.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08Come on. Quick.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Come on.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19Come on, Gracie. Now.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24- Too far, Molly.- Hurry up.
0:29:33 > 0:29:38- CHILDREN SING: - # He made their tiny wings
0:29:38 > 0:29:41# All things bright and beautiful
0:29:41 > 0:29:46# All creatures great and small... #
0:29:47 > 0:29:50DIDGERIDOO PLAYS
0:30:02 > 0:30:05INTENSE MUSIC
0:30:13 > 0:30:15KOOKABURRA CALLS
0:30:18 > 0:30:20Come on, let's go!
0:30:47 > 0:30:50- Irene Barton. - Here.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52- Ellie Moodoo. - Here.
0:30:52 > 0:30:53Molly Craig.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56Molly Craig?
0:30:59 > 0:31:01Molly Craig?
0:31:04 > 0:31:07Gracie Fields.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11Daisy Kadibil.
0:31:18 > 0:31:20Nina, have you seen the new girls?
0:31:20 > 0:31:22Haven't seen 'em all day, miss.
0:31:28 > 0:31:31LAUGHTER
0:31:34 > 0:31:36MEN SPEAK ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE
0:31:41 > 0:31:44- PUFFING: - Mr... Mr Neville says you better come real quick.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51SPEAKS ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE
0:32:17 > 0:32:20THUNDER RUMBLES
0:32:41 > 0:32:44THUNDER CRACKS
0:32:57 > 0:32:59HORSE NEIGHS
0:33:03 > 0:33:05MOLLY CHUCKLES
0:33:28 > 0:33:30That's two days ago, Mr Neal.
0:33:30 > 0:33:35Yes, I understand, but I require to be kept fully informed.
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Thank you. Goodbye.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44Those three girls, they've run off.
0:33:44 > 0:33:45Oh, dear.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47Probably the older one.
0:33:49 > 0:33:50I wondered when I saw her.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53Too much of their mind...
0:33:53 > 0:33:55Unfathomable.
0:33:57 > 0:33:58The tracker's onto it.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01In the meantime, it must be kept out of the papers.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04No rain, tracker gonna get us.
0:34:04 > 0:34:05Tracker's not gonna get us.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Come on.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10- We gotta keep going. - Come on, Gracie.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Daisy, give me your bag.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40Give us your bag, quick.
0:34:40 > 0:34:41Give us it!
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Hurry up! In the water, in the water.
0:34:57 > 0:34:58We need to cover our tracks.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31DIDGERIDOO PLAYS
0:36:25 > 0:36:27Shh, shh, shh.
0:36:27 > 0:36:28Shh. Shh.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Shh.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Whoa. Whoa, whoa.
0:37:05 > 0:37:09I see...the emu?
0:37:09 > 0:37:11No, that's not it.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14I see the kangaroo.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17- Red one.- No.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19I don't see nothing. There's no food here.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22- I see... - We don't know this place.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26- How are we going to eat?- Shh!
0:37:26 > 0:37:28MEN'S VOICES
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Run!
0:37:31 > 0:37:33Quick, hide. Come on.
0:37:43 > 0:37:46Ask them, Molly. Ask them for something to eat.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16Hey, you from that Moore River place, eh?
0:38:17 > 0:38:18We're going home.
0:38:18 > 0:38:20Where your country?
0:38:20 > 0:38:22Jigalong.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Jigalong?
0:38:24 > 0:38:25Proper long way.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36Do you know what you're doing?
0:38:40 > 0:38:42That tracker from Moore River...
0:38:44 > 0:38:45..he pretty good.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48I heard he get them runaways all the time.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50You've got to be good to beat him.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53He'll take you back to that place.
0:38:53 > 0:38:54Here.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00You watch out for him, eh?
0:39:06 > 0:39:08You think you're so smart.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12Where are we?
0:39:14 > 0:39:16We're lost.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23Jigalong that way.
0:39:23 > 0:39:24North.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28The tracker followed them to this riverbank
0:39:28 > 0:39:32but lost their tracks in the water about a week ago.
0:39:32 > 0:39:35There's been no sign of them since.
0:39:35 > 0:39:36Three little half-castes.
0:39:36 > 0:39:39We're talking quite a few man hours here.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Who's going to pay for it?
0:39:41 > 0:39:43There's very little money in my departmental budget.
0:39:43 > 0:39:46I'm hoping your men can combine this with their regular duties.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48We'll be able to handle all the notifications,
0:39:48 > 0:39:50posting police stations, farms...
0:39:50 > 0:39:51We'll provide a description.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54But if my men make trips outside their duties,
0:39:54 > 0:39:56it's an impost on your department, Mr Neville.
0:39:56 > 0:40:00If your men are on other jobs, there is no extra expense.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02I see that, Mr Neville.
0:40:02 > 0:40:05Every one of your men has a role as local protector.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07My men will do their jobs, Mr Neville.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12- Now, a week ago, you said. - Yes.
0:40:19 > 0:40:21Hey, Maude. Your girls have gone.
0:40:26 > 0:40:28What did you say?
0:40:28 > 0:40:30They've run away from Moore River.
0:40:30 > 0:40:31They're gone.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33Everybody's looking for them.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15And what do you think you might be up to?
0:41:16 > 0:41:17Thieving my eggs, eh?
0:41:17 > 0:41:20You come out here where I can see you.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Come on. Stand up.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Out you come.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30And get rid of that bread.
0:41:30 > 0:41:31It's filthy.
0:41:32 > 0:41:36You want something to eat, you ask for it.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43Come on.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45I'm not going to bite you.
0:41:52 > 0:41:53Are you on your own?
0:41:54 > 0:41:56Hmm?
0:41:58 > 0:42:00Got anyone with you?
0:42:13 > 0:42:15There you are.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23Where are you girls planning on going?
0:42:27 > 0:42:28Cat got your tongue, eh?
0:42:33 > 0:42:36RADIO PLAYS SOFTLY
0:42:40 > 0:42:41Now get!
0:42:41 > 0:42:43Go on.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52And watch out for those boys further along.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54They go out hunting rabbits along the fence.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02That rabbit-proof fence?
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Yes, the rabbit-proof fence.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06Where that rabbit fence?
0:43:06 > 0:43:08East.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19HAUNTING SOUNDSCAPE
0:43:38 > 0:43:40Which way now?
0:43:40 > 0:43:42That way.
0:43:42 > 0:43:43That fence.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Find that rabbit fence, we go home.
0:43:46 > 0:43:47Then we see our mum.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56HAUNTING ABORIGINAL SINGING
0:44:05 > 0:44:10READS: "The Chief Protector of Aborigines, Mr AO Neville..."
0:44:10 > 0:44:12- ALL:- The devil!
0:44:12 > 0:44:15"..Is concerned about three native girls
0:44:15 > 0:44:19"ranging from eight to fourteen years of age
0:44:19 > 0:44:21"who a month ago
0:44:21 > 0:44:23"ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement."
0:44:23 > 0:44:25ALL CHEER
0:44:25 > 0:44:30"He would be grateful if any person...who saw them
0:44:30 > 0:44:33"would notify him...promptly.
0:44:33 > 0:44:39"'We have been searching high and low for the children
0:44:39 > 0:44:43"'for a month past,' added Mr Neville.
0:44:43 > 0:44:47"'And all the trace we found of them was a dead rabbit.'"
0:45:02 > 0:45:04DESOLATE SOUNDSCAPE
0:45:13 > 0:45:15WHISTLES
0:45:18 > 0:45:21It's the fence! It's the fence! She found it!
0:45:21 > 0:45:24EMOTIVE MUSIC
0:46:05 > 0:46:08Now, the latest sighting which is four days old is...
0:46:08 > 0:46:11- The man from the newspaper. - I have nothing more to say!
0:46:11 > 0:46:13May I have a look?
0:46:15 > 0:46:17Dalwallinu. Yes?
0:46:17 > 0:46:18Bunnawarra.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Yalgoo.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29Dalwallinu.
0:46:29 > 0:46:30Bunnawarra. Yalgoo.
0:46:30 > 0:46:34Dalwallinu, Bunnawarra, Yalgoo.
0:46:40 > 0:46:41They're on the fence.
0:46:43 > 0:46:45They're following the rabbit-proof fence.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Right.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Just because people use Neolithic tools, Inspector,
0:46:51 > 0:46:53does not mean they have Neolithic minds.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55This makes our task very much easier.
0:46:55 > 0:46:59Look. There's a branch off here to the west, north of Yalgoo.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02Now, you put your man out here on the fence
0:47:02 > 0:47:04and north of this junction.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07He can start to come down it to meet them.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11I'll have Moodoo come up from the south behind them.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14MENACING MUSIC
0:47:15 > 0:47:17We can't miss them.
0:47:50 > 0:47:51Where Daisy?
0:47:51 > 0:47:53Wait here.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06My legs, Molly.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08They hurt. I can't walk.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17I'll carry you only once, all right?
0:48:17 > 0:48:18Come on.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20Come on.
0:48:34 > 0:48:37Don't think I'm carrying you all the way.
0:48:39 > 0:48:41HORSE SNORTS
0:48:41 > 0:48:42Camp, Molly.
0:48:55 > 0:48:56Damn me.
0:48:59 > 0:49:00Where are you girls headed?
0:49:05 > 0:49:07Going to Mullewa?
0:49:08 > 0:49:09Got family there?
0:49:12 > 0:49:13Where Mullewa?
0:49:13 > 0:49:15Mullewa?
0:49:15 > 0:49:17West.
0:49:19 > 0:49:22The way you're headed along the number two fence.
0:49:23 > 0:49:25Are there two rabbit-proof fence?
0:49:25 > 0:49:26My oath.
0:49:26 > 0:49:28We've got three of them.
0:49:28 > 0:49:30We're on the wrong fence.
0:49:33 > 0:49:34Where the north fence?
0:49:35 > 0:49:39North fence - back that way where you come from.
0:49:40 > 0:49:41You can cut across.
0:49:41 > 0:49:43I'll show you.
0:49:43 > 0:49:44Number one rabbit fence.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47Here's the number two fence.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Now, you're here.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51But you want to be here.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54Now, if you cut across here...
0:49:55 > 0:49:59..you save yourself 100 mile or so.
0:49:59 > 0:50:00It's not hard.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21I'm going back.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23I don't have the petrol.
0:50:34 > 0:50:37FAINT MUSIC
0:50:48 > 0:50:50WHISTLES
0:50:59 > 0:51:01Hey, we're hungry.
0:51:17 > 0:51:19Are youse that lot from Moore River?
0:51:19 > 0:51:20Yeah.
0:51:21 > 0:51:24What - you girls walk all that way?
0:51:25 > 0:51:26Yeah.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28800 miles?
0:51:29 > 0:51:30I was there.
0:51:30 > 0:51:32Too scared to run away, but.
0:51:32 > 0:51:36Everyone was always caught, stuck in that boob.
0:51:38 > 0:51:39Youse got the furtherest.
0:51:39 > 0:51:40Where you heading?
0:51:40 > 0:51:42Home.
0:51:42 > 0:51:44- < WOMAN:- Mavis!
0:51:46 > 0:51:47Stay here.
0:51:47 > 0:51:49I'll come back and get you.
0:51:49 > 0:51:52Sleep with me. I'll get you some food.
0:51:54 > 0:51:57Just getting the washing, Mrs Evans!
0:52:32 > 0:52:34FOOTSTEPS
0:52:34 > 0:52:36Shh! What's that?
0:52:36 > 0:52:38There's someone coming.
0:52:39 > 0:52:40Quick, quick, into bed.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42Hide under the blankets.
0:52:47 > 0:52:50LATCH CLATTERS
0:53:12 > 0:53:13ALL GASP
0:53:26 > 0:53:28Mavis.
0:53:30 > 0:53:32- Go away. - Don't worry about that!
0:53:32 > 0:53:35Come on, quick. Get up. Get up! Come on!
0:53:37 > 0:53:38Shh, shh, shh. DOOR SHUTS
0:53:42 > 0:53:44Don't go, Molly.
0:53:45 > 0:53:47Please don't go.
0:53:50 > 0:53:52He come back if you go.
0:53:55 > 0:53:57Don't go.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00He won't say anything.
0:54:04 > 0:54:05Please.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25CAR APPROACHES
0:54:35 > 0:54:37Hello, Evans.
0:54:38 > 0:54:39- MRS EVANS:- Hello.- Mrs Evans.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42Quick! Wake up. Wake up. You got to go.
0:54:45 > 0:54:46Let's have a look.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Out that way. Just keep going.
0:54:51 > 0:54:54TENSE MUSIC
0:55:13 > 0:55:17They were running out over there about an hour or so ago.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42We'll pick up their tracks in the morning.
0:55:42 > 0:55:45I'll make a cup of tea.
0:55:56 > 0:55:57That's the tracker.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59DOGS BARK FEROCIOUSLY
0:56:10 > 0:56:11Yeah, that's him.
0:56:11 > 0:56:14TENSE MUSIC
0:57:30 > 0:57:31Hop on.
0:57:31 > 0:57:34UNEASY MUSIC
0:58:39 > 0:58:41I do not expect you to understand
0:58:41 > 0:58:44what I am trying to do for these people.
0:58:44 > 0:58:46But I'll not have my plans jeopardised.
0:58:46 > 0:58:50The problem of half-castes is not simply going to go away.
0:58:50 > 0:58:52If it is not dealt with now,
0:58:52 > 0:58:54it will fester for years to come.
0:58:54 > 0:58:56These children are that problem.
0:58:56 > 0:58:57Please explain exactly what happened.
0:58:57 > 0:59:01I don't know how they did it, but we lost them.
0:59:01 > 0:59:03I had Larsen out there. Moodoo was with him.
0:59:03 > 0:59:05They're making right fools of us.
0:59:05 > 0:59:07They are indeed, Inspector.
0:59:07 > 0:59:10And the cost is more than to just our pride.
0:59:10 > 0:59:12This department's reputation is beginning to suffer.
0:59:12 > 0:59:14My men have better things to do
0:59:14 > 0:59:16than chase your charges all around the country.
0:59:16 > 0:59:18Now...
0:59:18 > 0:59:21they're coming into very rough terrain.
0:59:22 > 0:59:25Once they're much past Meekatharra,
0:59:25 > 0:59:27I can't risk any of my men.
0:59:27 > 0:59:30Yes, we must find them before they reach real desert country.
0:59:30 > 0:59:33So this is what we're going to do.
0:59:33 > 0:59:36You get your man up there. Moodoo can join him.
0:59:36 > 0:59:38Well up the fence - around here.
0:59:38 > 0:59:41Far enough up so we know we cannot possibly miss them.
0:59:41 > 0:59:43And I want them to stay there.
0:59:43 > 0:59:45They can set up camp and wait.
0:59:45 > 0:59:47Costly.
0:59:48 > 0:59:50Well, we'll just have to bear it.
0:59:51 > 0:59:53Their lives may be at stake.
0:59:54 > 0:59:57Inspector, I understand the mother of one of the girls
0:59:57 > 0:59:59has gone to Wiluna.
0:59:59 > 1:00:01The children are headed into that country.
1:00:01 > 1:00:03I want the word spread.
1:00:03 > 1:00:05Let's see what that does.
1:00:21 > 1:00:23You wouldn't get me out there.
1:00:28 > 1:00:29She's pretty clever, that girl.
1:00:33 > 1:00:35She wants to go home.
1:00:46 > 1:00:48Good thing you kids ran into me.
1:00:48 > 1:00:51A lot of people worried for you.
1:00:51 > 1:00:54The police are up and down the country looking for youse.
1:00:54 > 1:00:56It's in all the papers.
1:00:57 > 1:00:59Which one of you is Gracie?
1:01:05 > 1:01:07Are you Gracie?
1:01:07 > 1:01:09I hear your mummy in Wiluna.
1:01:09 > 1:01:11You can catch a train there from Meeka.
1:01:20 > 1:01:22Come on.
1:01:22 > 1:01:23Let's go.
1:01:28 > 1:01:30Wiluna - is she at Wiluna?
1:01:30 > 1:01:32Yes.
1:01:33 > 1:01:34Come on, Gracie.
1:01:35 > 1:01:37Don't listen to him.
1:01:37 > 1:01:38He's a liar.
1:01:40 > 1:01:42Maybe she there, Molly.
1:01:42 > 1:01:44Maybe he telling the truth.
1:01:56 > 1:01:57Molly.
1:01:59 > 1:02:02Let's go to Meeka, catch a train to Wiluna.
1:02:02 > 1:02:04If they see us, they'll catch us.
1:02:06 > 1:02:07We can't stop now.
1:02:07 > 1:02:09We must keep going.
1:02:09 > 1:02:10We're nearly there.
1:02:12 > 1:02:15But, Molly, Mummy there.
1:02:16 > 1:02:17She at Wiluna.
1:02:18 > 1:02:20I want Mummy.
1:02:26 > 1:02:28Come on.
1:02:28 > 1:02:30Come on, Daisy.
1:02:35 > 1:02:37Come on, Daisy.
1:02:56 > 1:02:58You have to carry me, Molly.
1:02:59 > 1:03:01Hop on.
1:03:04 > 1:03:05She not coming.
1:03:10 > 1:03:13Don't look back. Don't look back. She'll come.
1:03:22 > 1:03:25TROUBLED MUSIC
1:03:30 > 1:03:33Higher.
1:03:33 > 1:03:34You got them?
1:03:35 > 1:03:37Three!
1:03:37 > 1:03:41One for you, one for me and one for both of us.
1:03:45 > 1:03:47Mmm!
1:03:47 > 1:03:50PENSIVE MUSIC
1:04:20 > 1:04:22Come on, Dais.
1:04:22 > 1:04:24We've got to go back for Gracie.
1:04:48 > 1:04:50Go!
1:05:11 > 1:05:14MEN LAUGH
1:05:15 > 1:05:18What are you going to do - sell the thing?
1:05:20 > 1:05:22WHISTLES
1:06:12 > 1:06:14I've got her!
1:06:14 > 1:06:16I want to get the train to Mummy!
1:06:16 > 1:06:19This is one of them. She thinks her mummy's there.
1:06:19 > 1:06:22Gracie.
1:06:23 > 1:06:24Oi! Grab her!
1:06:24 > 1:06:26Hey!
1:06:26 > 1:06:27Gotcha!
1:06:27 > 1:06:31You're not going anywhere. Now, get in that car now.
1:06:34 > 1:06:35Thanks, Jacky.
1:06:35 > 1:06:39There will be a shilling for you back at the station.
1:06:40 > 1:06:42I'm taking you back where you belong.
1:06:42 > 1:06:45SAD MUSIC
1:06:55 > 1:06:57She gone, Molly?
1:06:57 > 1:06:59She not coming back?
1:07:54 > 1:07:56Needle in a haystack.
1:08:04 > 1:08:05Well, that's it.
1:08:05 > 1:08:08Pack your stuff. We're getting out of here.
1:08:14 > 1:08:16They're only paying us for three weeks.
1:08:32 > 1:08:34CURLEWS CRY
1:08:39 > 1:08:41To Constable Riggs, Police Station, Nullagine.
1:08:41 > 1:08:44The two missing half-caste girls, Molly and Daisy,
1:08:44 > 1:08:47are returning to Jigalong via the rabbit-proof fence,
1:08:47 > 1:08:51our efforts to apprehend them thus far having come to nought.
1:08:51 > 1:08:54I therefore expect them to arrive in Jigalong
1:08:54 > 1:08:56in about a month's time.
1:08:56 > 1:08:58In your capacity as local protector,
1:08:58 > 1:09:02you are to proceed to Jigalong to await their arrival
1:09:02 > 1:09:05and effect their recapture.
1:09:05 > 1:09:08Yours, etc.
1:09:08 > 1:09:11SUBDUED MUSIC
1:09:28 > 1:09:29No fence.
1:09:39 > 1:09:40I want Mother.
1:09:43 > 1:09:44The fence will come back.
1:09:44 > 1:09:47OTHER-WORLDLY MUSIC
1:10:17 > 1:10:20BLEAK MUSIC
1:11:14 > 1:11:17SOFT ABORIGINAL SINGING
1:11:27 > 1:11:29WOMAN SINGS
1:11:57 > 1:11:59SHE CONTINUES TO SING
1:12:31 > 1:12:34BIRD CAWS
1:12:44 > 1:12:47SOARING MUSIC
1:13:06 > 1:13:10HAUNTING MUSIC
1:13:35 > 1:13:38Home.
1:13:44 > 1:13:46MOLLY GRUNTS
1:14:14 > 1:14:17- WOMAN:- It's coming through now.
1:14:17 > 1:14:20"Riggs arrived Jigalong.
1:14:22 > 1:14:24"Awaits your instructions."
1:14:26 > 1:14:28Yes, there will be a reply. Please wait.
1:14:30 > 1:14:33- MAN READS:- "Girl is to be sent South, via Meekatharra,
1:14:33 > 1:14:35"to be accompanied at all times.
1:14:35 > 1:14:38"Awaiting notification."
1:14:38 > 1:14:41DISTANT SINGING
1:14:50 > 1:14:51What's all that about?
1:14:51 > 1:14:55Just some women's business.
1:14:57 > 1:14:59Been going on all day.
1:15:02 > 1:15:04- Hey, Molly.- Yeah?
1:15:04 > 1:15:07That tracker, he not going to get us now.
1:15:07 > 1:15:09Nah, he's not going to get us.
1:15:09 > 1:15:12SINGING GROWS LOUDER
1:15:23 > 1:15:26I'm not going to stay here. I can feel it.
1:15:27 > 1:15:29They're up to something.
1:15:31 > 1:15:34I'm going to go take a look.
1:15:35 > 1:15:38WOMEN SING
1:16:09 > 1:16:11MAN SPEAKS ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE
1:16:17 > 1:16:21WOMEN SING
1:16:42 > 1:16:45BIRD SQUAWKS
1:17:26 > 1:17:29BIRD SQUAWKS
1:18:01 > 1:18:04BIRD CAWS
1:18:15 > 1:18:18WHISTLES BIRD CALL
1:18:44 > 1:18:47PUFFS, GIGGLES
1:18:52 > 1:18:55THEY SOB
1:19:03 > 1:19:07I lost one... SNIFFS: ..I lost one.
1:19:07 > 1:19:10SHE SOBS
1:19:39 > 1:19:42GENTLE MUSIC
1:20:14 > 1:20:15NEVILLE: 'To Constable Riggs,
1:20:15 > 1:20:17'Police Station, Nullagine.'
1:20:17 > 1:20:20At present, we lack the funds
1:20:20 > 1:20:23to pursue the missing half-caste girls,
1:20:23 > 1:20:25Molly and Daisy.
1:20:25 > 1:20:27I would ask
1:20:27 > 1:20:30to be kept informed of their whereabouts,
1:20:30 > 1:20:36so that at some future date, they may indeed be...recovered.
1:20:38 > 1:20:42We face an uphill battle with these people,
1:20:42 > 1:20:45especially the bush natives,
1:20:45 > 1:20:50who have to be protected against themselves.
1:20:50 > 1:20:53If they would only understand
1:20:53 > 1:20:57what we are trying to do for them.
1:21:01 > 1:21:03Yours, etc.
1:21:03 > 1:21:05Thank you.
1:21:05 > 1:21:08HAUNTING MUSIC
1:24:14 > 1:24:17MUSIC: "Ngankarrparni" by Peter Gabriel