Yes in Australia. I never knew about that until I studed Aborginal studies in tertiary education. Unlike school little was discussed on the discrimations of them. In Australia’s Northern Territory – also in 1959 – Mick Daly, a white Australian drover and his Aboriginal girlfriend, Gladys Namagu, were refused permission to marry by Government officials. They were dubbed the ‘
Outback Romeo and Juliet’ and their plight sparked national outrage and public sympathy. Federal and state politicians became involved in their case, as did academics, the media - and even the United Nations.
Illegal love: Is this NT couple Australia's Richard and Mildred Loving?
In Queensland, the Chief Protector generally used his power over Aboriginal marriages to bar the unions of whites with Aboriginals of both full and mixed descent. This was predicated on the belief that Europeans and Aboriginals were at either end of the racial ladder, and their unions inevitably disruptive of the social order and damaging for the resulting children. Concern was not infrequently expressed that mixed race children combined the worst features of their parents’ races, were physically and mentally weaker, and more prone to alcoholism, sexual aberration and communism.
‘True and good citizens’
Anyway 20 years ago I knew a white guy wo wanted to get married to an Aboriginal woman, but the priest refused to marry them.
Well the Uniting churches in my area are overwhelming elderly people. I don't mind going to churches with older people but not when I am the youngest there.
