MINI-SKIRT ALLEGATION
Denial sent to Minister
(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BRISBANE, March 8.
The manager of the Doomadgee Church Mission, in northern Queensland, Mr A. Hockey, has denied that a young Aboriginal girl was locked up for 14 days for wearing a mini-skirt. The Queensland Minister of Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Neville Hewitt) said that Mr Hockey had denied the allegations in a telegram sent today to the Minister’s department in Brisbane. A Queensland senator, Mr James Keeffe, made the allegation yesterday in a statement to a Senate standing committee inquiring into the environmental conditions of Aboriginals and Torres Strait islanders. Senator Keeffe, who alleged that the girl was locked up for 14 days in her dormitory about eight months after the manager had decided that her mini-skirt was too short, also said that after the girl was locked up, a native policeman went round with a ruler, measuring the distance between other girls’ knees and the hems of their skirts. Mr Hewitt said in his telegram that to his knowledge there were no restrictions on mini-skirts in Aboriginal communities anywhere in Queensland.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32861, 9 March 1972, Page 15
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