birth the girl had been promised to him as a wife. The girl was taken to his outstation, where he had sex with her. But the next day she was unhappy and tried to return home with her relatives when they came to check on her. The man then fired a shotgun. He was later charged with having unlawful intercourse with a girl under 16, and discharging a firearm.
This article relates to equality and difference because the aboriginal adolescent did not receive her rights under the Australian law.
"A citizen of our nation who happened to be an Aboriginal girl was not afforded the protection and equality that is her right under Australian law."
She did not receive protection under criminal law and the Marriage act of Australia.
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