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    MENDING FENCES

    Sep 23, 2019 6 minutes
    WORDS_ REBECCA CASSON.
    PHOTOS_
    SARAH HYDE & KATE HODGES

    NEVER underestimate the power of a book to change a life. After all, it happened to Sarah Hyde.

    Sarah never imagined she would one day walk 1450km along the Rabbit Proof Fence. After all, it is a pretty daunting way for a Sydney girl to connect to country. But once the idea took hold, it became her pilgrimage that had to happen. And now she is working with local groups in the hope it will happen for others as well.

    The then 33-year-old Sydney based speech pathologist had picked up Doris Pilkington’s and was struck by the enormity of the factual story. If you haven’t read the book, if you haven’t seen the movie, it’s an incredible tale of love, survival and bushmanship triumphing over brutality. Set in 1931, the author’s mother Molly, then aged 14, Gracie, 11, and Daisy, 8, escaped from incarceration in a government settlement (established due to Western Australia’s Aborigines Act 1905) to return to their home in the north of the state. The girls kept their

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