ABSTRACT
Throughout the years there have been fundamental changes in the three topics examined in this volume. In the late 1960s young people turned away from the traditional marriage Laws and decided that they wanted ‘to go the Whiteman’s way’ and to marry for love (McKnight 2004). When all is said and done this was yet another way, a new way, of justifying breaking the marriage Laws. Although the traditional system (such as it was) of kinship and marriage was by no means completely discarded it no longer holds pride of place as it once did. TTiere are no formal community discussions about the rightness and wrongness of a proposed marriage. In marriage matters people more or less go their own way. Men, particularly Kaiadilt men, no longer compete in collecting as many wives as they can and in conjunction with this change there is no longer the need for men to force their will on women or to control other men’s sexuality. Monogamy is mandatory and the question of endogamy and exogamy is never considered.
