Murchison Murders
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The Murchison Murders were a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman known as "Snowy" Rowles, near the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia during the early 1930s. Rowles used t
Snowy Rowles standing beside James Ryan's car, photographed by Arthur Upfield
Rabbit-proof fence
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The State Barrier Fence, formerly known as the Rabbit-Proof Fence, the State Vermin Barrier Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a series of pest-exclusion fences originally constructed between 1902 and 1907
Murchison Murders
…The Murchison Murders were a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman known as "Snowy" Rowles (born John Thomas Smith), near the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia during the early 1930s. Rowles used the murder method that had been suggested by author Arthur Upfield in his then unpublished…
The rabbit-proof fence in 2005
Boundary rider's team at the 100-mile (160 km) No. 1 Fence in Western Australia in 1926
1884 cartoon in response to a proposal to erect a rabbit-proof fence between New South Wales and Queensland. The caption reads: "Mr Stevenson, M.L.A., suggested that the Government should erect a wire fence along our New South Wales border in order to check the coming invasion of rabbits. The artist depicts the probable use the bunnies would make of the fence."