[news] Secret Australia

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

**Palm Island** is one of the most beautiful on the Great Barrier Reef...Established in 1918 as a detention camp for **Aboriginal men, women and children** convicted of the crimes of homelessness, rebelliousness and drunkenness, it has changed mostly on the surface. When I first went there in 1980, an epidemic of gastroenteritis was deemed life-threatening. Two years later...Aboriginal deaths from common, infectious diseases were up to 300 times higher than the white average, and the highest in the world. In the cemetery, overlooking waves breaking gently on the coral reef, many of the headstones bear the names of children.

  


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