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    explain how Doris Pilkington Garimara drew attention to those problems. Cultural competence means to respect, accept and appreciate all cultures without any form of prejudice (Murphy, 2011). In the early twentieth century, Pilkington highlighted the issues about racism and the Stolen Generations to create awareness about those topics, lead people to respect and embrace Indigenous cultures, and hopefully lead those people to become culturally competent too. Doris Pilkington Garimara was an Indigenous

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    you got taken away from your parents and family? The author of the rabbit proof fence Doris Pilkington Garimara wrote the books to help spread how badly the white people treated the aboriginal people. The forced removal of Indigenous Australians from land and family had an impact on Australia. Today’s oral presentation will discuss: the time that the rabbit proof fence was set in, why Doris Pilkington Garimara created the text and how the audience is positioned to view the indigenous perspective

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    thanks additionally go to my partner in building up the venture and individuals who have energetically bailed me out with their capacities. About The Author Pilkington was conceived at Balfour Downs Station close to the north western Australia settlement of jigalong. Her mom, Molly, named her Nugi Garimara, however she was called Doris after Molly 's superintendent at the station, Mary Dunnet, who thought Nugi was "an imbecilic name". As her introduction to the world was unregistered, her introduction

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    The movie Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Hollywood based Australian director Phillip Noyce and released in 2002. The Screenplay of the movie is written by Christine Olsen on adaptation of Doris Pilkington’s book. Film is fiction based on fact, tells the real life story of three Aboriginal girls, Molly, Gracie, Daisy, who made 1500 miles nine weeks on food journey from Moore River Settlement to Jigalong. They fallowed the rabbit proof fence in order to return home to their mothers. The policies

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    Rabbit Proof Fence, originally written by Doris Pilkington Garimara in 1996, is a true story, which was adapted into a movie in 2002 by Phillip Noyce. The film captures the adventures of three Aboriginal girls (Molly, 14, Daisy, 8, and Gracie, 10), who escape from an English settlement school after being forcibly taken from their home in Jigalong. The director positions viewers to feel negatively toward the issue of cultural destructiveness through the application of three main conventions. These

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    In the film adaptation of Doris Pilkington Garimara book “Follow the rabbit proof fence”, Mr Neville is a significant character thru out the movie Mr Neville is shown as the antagonist, because of his actions against the aboriginal people and his thoughts being that the aboriginal blood line should be non existent. The movie helps communicate this by its use of various camera angles to give us a negative opinion on Mr Neville. In the scene where Mr Neville is first introduced to us there is a part

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    If Australia is the ‘Lucky Country’ then why is 40% of the migrants that come here leaving shortly after. According to Mary Doe from News Org Australia Network “The number of former migrants leaving the country has doubled in just over a decade to 48,000 and last year made up more than half of all Australians moving overseas.” Is this because of marginalisation or something else? Marginalisation is something that is causing bullying, bashings and even death and it is all happening in our backyards

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    “From the surface one may look upon Australia as being the ‘lucky county’ however when explored deeper Kayleigh Richmond came to the conclusion that this so called ‘lucky country’ isn’t all that ‘lucky’ for marginalized groups in Australia, the literature of these marginalized groups in Australia certainly substantiates this point”. Many sources of literature suggest that Australia is not considered the lucky country for migrants, indigenous and other marginalized groups of people living in Australian

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    “From the surface one may look upon Australia as being the ‘lucky county’ however when explored deeper Kayleigh Richmond came to the conclusion that this so called ‘lucky country’ isn’t all that ‘lucky’ for marginalized groups in Australia, the literature of these marginalized groups in Australia certainly substantiates this point”. Many sources of literature suggest that Australia is not considered the lucky country for migrants, indigenous and other marginalized groups of people living in Australian

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    Rabbit Proof Fence is a movie directed by Phillip Noyce based on the novel by Doris Pilkington Garimara. In the excerpt, ‘The Stealing of Children,’ it shows the offspring of the indigenous people being taken away from their parents as the white settlers thought they weren’t being treated properly. Events like these occurred from 1910-1970 in Australia’s history. Many aboriginal children didn’t want to be taken away and the fictional story, based on real events, of Rabbit Proof Fence has been created

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