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
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."
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
Rabbit-proof fence
…book about this called Murder on the Rabbit Proof Fence: The Strange Case of Arthur Upfield and Snowy Rowles (1993). The events are now referred to as the Murchison Murders. Doris Pilkington Garimara's book, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), describes how three Indigenous Australian girls used the fence to guide their…
Snowy Rowles standing beside James Ryan's car, photographed by Arthur Upfield