Rabbit-Proof Fence Page #2

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(Wails)

(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)

(SILENCE)

(Women wail)

NEVILLE:
As you know,

every Aborigine born in this State

comes under my control.

Notice, if you will,

the half-caste child.

And there are

ever-increasing numbers of them.

Now, what is to happen to them?

Are we to allow the creation

of an unwanted third race?

Should coloureds be encouraged

to go back to the black?

Or should they be advanced

to white status

and be absorbed

in the white population?

Now, time and again,

I'm asked by some white man,

"If I marry

this coloured person,

"will our children be black?"

And as Chief Protector

of Aborigines,

it is my responsibility

to accept or reject those marriages.

Here is the answer.

Three generations.

Half-blood grandmother.

Quadroon daughter.

Octoroon grandson.

Now, as you can see,

in the third generation,

or third cross,

no trace of native origin

is apparent.

The continuing

infiltration of white blood

finally stamps out

the black colour.

The Aboriginal

has simply been bred out.

Now...

...we come to...

We come to the Moore River

Native Settlement.

Ladies, most of you are familiar

with our work here -

the training of domestic

servants and farm labourers.

I would like to thank you

for your continuing support.

Hundreds of half-caste children

have been gathered up

and brought here

to be given the benefit

of everything

our culture has to offer.

For if we are to fit and train

such children for the future,

they cannot be left as they are.

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