The Rabbits
The eponymous rabbits are the antagonists of the story. Representing the British colonizers of Australia, the rabbits are depicted in a stylized way, shown in illustrations as tall, defined animals dressed in colonial clothing. The rabbits are shown entering the marsupials' country, building houses, quickly outnumbering the native marsupials, radically altering the landscape with infrastructure and pollution, ignoring the culture of the marsupials, and defeating the marsupials in battle.
The Marsupials
The protagonists and collective narrator of the story are the marsupials, who represent indigenous Australians. First encountering the colonizing rabbits with curiosity, the marsupials are helpless as they witness the rabbits impose a new culture on the marsupials' territory, radically altering the landscape and the marsupials' way of life.
