Personal Life
In 1987 Barnbrook dated actress Tilda Swinton, after meeting her at a working group with the late film-maker Derek Jarman. Barnbrook married an American in 1998; they separated in 2004 due to personal differences and were divorced in 2008.
Barnbrook was engaged to ballerina Simone Clarke. However, in August 2008 it was reported that he had been seeing a Finnish nurse, Annika Tavilampi, whom he had met over the Internet. The relationship has since ended. In statements made before he met Clarke, however, Barnbrook was quoted as saying, apropos her relationship with Yat-Sen Chang and their daughter, Olivia, "I'm not opposed to mixed marriages but their children are washing out the identity of this country's indigenous people." He later said that, should he and Clarke get married, "her child will be my child." In November 2008, he stated that they are no longer engaged.
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