page_title: Rabbit-proof fence
section_title: Elsewhere in Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Rabbit-proof fence / Elsewhere in Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: Stevenson's wire fence. Cartoon in response to Mr Stevenson's (M.L.A.) suggestion for the erection of a rabbit fence between New South Wales and Queensland to check the invasion of rabbits. "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."
context_page_description: The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, formerly known as the Rabbit Proof Fence, the State Vermin Fence, and the Emu Fence, is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between 1901 and 1907 to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests, from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas.
  There are three fences in Western Australia: the original No. 1 Fence crosses the state from north to south, No. 2 Fence is smaller and further west, and No. 3 Fence is smaller still and runs east–west. The fences took six years to build. When completed in 1907, the rabbit-proof fence stretched 2,023 miles. The cost to build each kilometre of fence at the time was about $250.
  When it was completed in 1907, the 1,139-mile No. 1 Fence was the longest unbroken fence in the world.
context_section_description: The Darling Downs-Moreton Rabbit Board fence is a rabbit fence that extends along part of the Queensland-New South Wales border.
caption: 1884 cartoon in response to a proposal to erect a rabbit-proof fence between New South Wales and Queensland.
  "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."
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