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PLIGHT OF AUSTRALIAN WOMEN (From a Correspondent) SYDNEY, December 14. Many unfortunate women in Australia were neither married nor yet unmarried, the Attorney - General (Sir Harry Manning) was told by a deputation asking for a reform of the Matrimonial Causes Act. Australian girls, who had married Americans who had deserted them, were unable to get a divorce either here or in America. Many girt? had
sailors from visiting American ships, but had not seen their husbands since, said Mrs Crawford, who led a deputation from the Women’s Coordinating Council of the United Australia Party. “The divorce laws are archaic,” she said. “They are a survival of the bad old days and we have a long way to go before we get them up to date. If an Australian woman married an American she was debarred by American law from domicile in the U.S.A., and by marrying an American she lost her British nation - ality.” Mr Manning promised to bring the matter before Cabinet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 22 (Supplement)
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165WED FOREIGNERS Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 22 (Supplement)
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