Australia in Colour - Series 2

Marriage and family are the foundation on which to build a prospering federated nation. This episode charts the changing dynamics from the turn of the 21st century, when white men’s and women’s traditional roles are set in stone, to the gradual shift to include interracial marriage, single parents, step-children and working wives in the 1960s. Through the changing decades the concept of family radically transforms with WW2, more inclusive divorce laws for women and birth control shifting the power balance, giving women more freedom and power. But Indigenous families across the country are torn apart through the Stolen Generations where children are forcibly taken to orphanages or fostered out to white families with the intention of assimilating them into society. Part 1 of 4. Ⓢ