Molly Kelly – the girl who followed the rabbit-proof fence home
Fierce Girls
ABC Australia
4.5 • 956 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Molly Kelly had a white father and an Aboriginal Mother and was just a young girl when she was taken from her home. She was stolen from her family and taken to a settlement where white people hoped to stamp out her Aboriginality. But Molly escaped and walked one thousand miles home to her family, using a rabbit-proof fence as her guide.
Written and narrated by twelve-year-old Ruby Macheda.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a good |
| 0:07.0 | go power |
| 0:10.0 | if you're an Aboriginal or Tori Strait Island a person. |
| 0:13.2 | We want to let you know that this episode contains the name of someone who is dying. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the story of the girl who followed the rabbit-proof fence hunt, Molly Kelly, written and read by 12-year-old Ruby Machita. |
| 0:29.3 | Molly get up. |
| 0:30.5 | Molly slowly opened her eyes. |
| 0:34.3 | Go away, she mumbled at her sister Daisy. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm trying to sleep. |
| 0:40.6 | Mom's taking us on Gowana Hunt, Daisy said. |
| 0:43.0 | We're leaving soon. |
| 0:45.0 | Molly groat. |
| 0:47.0 | Tell her I'm coming. |
| 0:49.0 | Molly quarreled out of her heart mate from branches and bark. |
| 0:54.0 | She smiled at the sight of little children playing and men leaving to catch food with their hunting spares. |
| 1:00.0 | Molly loved her life with the jigglong mob, but how that would change. |
| 1:05.0 | Molly was a mixed-race child. |
| 1:08.0 | Her mom was a Mar-2 Aboriginal woman and her dad was a white man working on the robot-proof fence. |
| 1:15.0 | The fence stretched across Western Australia from north to south. |
| 1:19.0 | It was 1,833 kilometers long and it was how Molly would eventually find her way home. |
| 1:30.0 | Car Thai screeched on the gravel. |
| 1:35.0 | Run! Molly's mom shouted. So Molly ran. |
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