Doris pilkington biography
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Pilkington, Doris
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Doris Pilkington is the author of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence; the story on which Phillip Noyce&#;s celebrated feature film is based.
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Doris Pilkington was born on Balfour Downs station, 60 kilometres northwest of Jigalong in the Pilbara district, Western Australia. Aged four she was forcibly removed with her mother to the Moore River settlement, kilometres north of Perth. Doris attended the settlement school before moving to Perth, where she began training as a nursing aide at the Royal Perth hospital. She later moved to Geraldton and, after raising her children, completed her secondary education. She returned to Perth to study journalism at Curtin University.
During a holiday at Jigalong, Pilkington discovered that her mother, Molly Kelly, was sent from Jigalong to the Moore River settlement at the age of 1
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Susan Wyatt Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimarra)
Doris Pilkington wrote the book Follow the rabbit-proof fence upon which Phillip Noyce’s award-winning film Rabbit-proof fence was based. It tells the true story of Pilkington’s mother Molly Craig and two other Aboriginal girls forcibly removed from their families by the Government to be trained as servants and their extraordinary mile journey home on foot in following the rabbit-proof fence.
Born in Balfour Downs Station in the East Pilbara in Western Australia, Pilkington and her mother were removed from their home bygd authorities and committed to the Moore River Native Settlement. At 18, Pilkington became the first person from a mission to qualify for a nursing aide-training program. She studied journalism and worked in film and film production. As an Aboriginal author, Pilkington works to promote and preserve the social history of the women of the East Pilbara region. Her other books include Caprice: a stockman’s daughter a
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Doris Pilkington Garimara
Aboriginal Australian author
Doris Pilkington GarimaraAM (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July – 10 April ), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an AboriginalAustralian author.
Garimara wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (), a story about the stolen generation, and based on three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled 2,&#;km (1, miles) for nine weeks to return to their family.
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[edit]Pilkington was born at Balfour Downs Station, near the north Western Australian settlement of Jigalong.[2] Her mother, Molly, named her Nugi Garimara, but she was called Doris by Molly's employer at the station, Mary Dunnet, who thought Nugi was "a dum name". As her birth was unregistered, her birth date was recorded as 1 July bygd the Department of Native Affairs.[3] She was taken from her mother to be raised at the Moore Riv