Rabbit Proof Fence

Long Walk Home is an album based on the music from the film Rabbit Proof Fence. Written and produced by Peter, the album is the end result of two years work with the film’s director Phillip Noyce and brings together a multitude of different musical origins, cultures, instruments and vocalists.

Nearly a full decade after the release of Us, Peter Gabriel finally returned with new music in the summer of 2002 – but it wasn't a new studio album, it was the soundtrack to Phillip Noyce's return to independent Australian cinema, Rabbit-Proof Fence. The film tells the true story of three Aboriginal girls who make a return to their home after being abducted by the government to serve as domestic help to a white family in 1931; as they make their journey through the Outback to their home, they follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, which had been constructed to prevent animals deemed agricultural pests – including rabbits, dingoes, and foxes – from crossing into Western Australia agricultural lands.

Rated PG is a collection of Peter Gabriel songs from the movies.

Thirteen years on from 1990’s Shaking The Tree compilation, Hit offers a much more voluminous overview of the Gabriel back catalogue.

'David is a gateway to a history that we've so far denied and not embraced. In this country, he's more important than Ned Kelly.' Jack Thompson

by Sue Aitken (Editor)

Twenty-six years ago, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson made "First Contact", about New Guinea Western Highlanders seeing white settlers for the first time in the 1930's. It remains one of our great documentaries. Now comes another absorbing "first contact" film much closer to home. Bentley Dean and Martin Butler's Contact looks at some of the last Aborigines to meet the modern world – a mob of 20 desert-dwelling Martu people.