Our Doris Top has been a best-seller this collection! We are nearly sold out of thr Baru Print, but still have some of the Mili print available 😊👙
Our Doris Set is named after Doris Pilkington Garimara AM, who is best known for her powerful 1996 book Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Rabbit-Proof Fence is a story of three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington’s mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western Australia and travelled for nine weeks to return to their family. The book was made into an internationally successful film in 2002, directed by Phillip Noyce.
In 1990 Pilkington’s book Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter the first of the trilogy, won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Unpublished Indigenous Writer – The David Unaipon Award. She was appointed co-patron of Australia’s State and Federal Sorry Day committee’s Journey of Healing in 2002. In May 2008 she was awarded the $50,000 Red Ochre Award.