@Hearach15 the very article you posted yourself about this, is based on a longer article by the author (I flicked through and read it in its entirety) that acknowledges that Australian state laws against interracial marriage were first introduced in Victoria in the 1860s, and in Queensland, codified in 1897 (as British internal governorship was being withdrawn - but it had been long withdrawn in practice for decades by then), and these laws were the province solely of the Australian state governors and not the British — and also that the ideology behind them varied massively between individual governors.
The article also acknowledges that these varied dramatically between different Australian states and territories, not colonial rule; and that the peak of these state laws regulating interracial marriage were introduced in the 1930s. You don’t even read the links you throw around!
I’m afraid you need to know a lot more about history before you prance about making massive sweeping generalisations about this that and the other somehow being down to the U.K. “because, like, the British Empire”.
Start educating yourself on global history, and then you can stop making yourself look foolish by somehow attempting to justify plopping in a point about the US Supreme Court, with a random statement about Australian history of interracial marriage — which makes no sense at all.
Better to educate yourself on actual history rather than throw around half understood random links that aren’t remotely related to your point.
overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-203/feature-rodney-croome/
“Like his counterparts in Queensland and Western Australia, the Northern Territory Protector controlled every aspect of the lives of Aboriginal people, including who they married. Government control over Indigenous marriage dated from the 1860s, when the Victorian government passed laws allowing the expulsion of Aboriginals from reserves if they married across racial lines, ostensibly to reduce the numbers claiming government assistance. Fears of racial contamination more clearly motivated the passage of the first law assuming direct control over marriages involving Indigenous people in Queensland in 1897.14 As Federation heightened white Australia’s fears for its racial integrity, Western Australia and the Northern Territory followed Queensland’s example. South Australia passed an Aboriginal marriage law for the territory it then governed, but not for itself. Like New South Wales and Victoria, it felt its Aboriginal problem would soon be solved by extinction.15
Beginning as controls on the marriage of black women to white or Asian men, the laws grew steadily in scope until, at their peak in the 1930s, they regulated the marriages of all Aboriginal people of all ancestries to all other people and to each other.
As legislation grew more intrusive, so it also began to be employed – like the marriage controls endured by convicts – to implement official ideologies. These ideologies often diverged dramatically between the Australian states, even though the laws remained remarkably consistent. 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.16
On the other side of the continent, Western Australia’s Chief Protector, AO Neville, held the more ‘modern’ view that Aboriginals were second only to Europeans in the racial hierarchy. Because whites and blacks were racial kin, the latter could be quickly absorbed by interbreeding with the former, without the risk of throwbacks or degeneration. As the ultimate guarantee of a white Australia, interracial unions were to be encouraged, and same-race marriages between Aboriginals, especially those of mixed descent, forbidden.17”