In this paper I aim to examine the relationship that has historically existed between intermarriage, honour and shame in Australia. As the demographic makeup and social structures of Australia have changed dramatically over the last 200 years, so too have patterns of endogamy and exogamy. Alongside these changes have been shifts in notions of honour and shame, but also in the meanings of marriage and race. This paper will focus on the 30-year period between 1970 and 2000, a time when many immigrants and the offspring of post-war immigrants were marrying. This paper examines a) the role that honour and shame played in the cultural negotiations that occurred in intermarriages on a micro level; and b) how intermarriages influenced the dynamics of honour and shame that governed social structures at a broader level. Intermarriage in Australia has been studied extensively but this has not been the case for honour and shame. This paper exists as a part of a larger project which seeks to explore this relationship in contemporary Australia.