Linden Girl. A Story Of Outlawed Lives

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Univ Of Western Australia Pr
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 1995
Edition: First Edition

Description: 304 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 1926, Aboriginal elders gave permission for Lallie Matbar, a young woman of the Linden mob, to marry Jack Akbar, an Afghan cameleer. Under the Aboriginal Act of 1905, however, their relationship was illegal. From 1926 to 1928, Jack, armed with character references attesting to his reliable standing in the community, repeatedly petitioned the Western Australian government for permission to marry the woman he loved. Despite Jacks efforts, the government not only denied that permission, but sought to hunt the couple down and separate them forever.Linden Girl is the astonishing true story of two outlawed lives - a tale of escape from persecution in the hands of misguided, over-zealous government authorities, providing a chilling reminder of a shameful chapter in the social and political history of this country. Institutional internment, flight to South Australia, arrest and extradition, duplicity and harassment; suffering a lifetime of scrutiny, the file on the irrepressible Lallie Matbar was only closed by her death in 1970.

ISBN: 9781875560257