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Between 1842 and 1904, more than 55,000 people from more than 80 South Pacific islands were brought to Australia to work as slaves on sugar and cotton plantations in Queensland and northern NSW. Many had been coerced into fixed-term contracts or even kidnapped; a process known as 'blackbirding'. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people weren't immune either. From the 1860s to the 1970s, men and boys were taken from their homes and forced to work at cattle and sheep stations across Australia. And from the early 1900s, women and girls were forcibly removed from their families, placed in domestic training facilities and then, once they turned 15, dispatched to homes as domestic 'help'. According to NITV, their weekly income "had an approximate buying power at the time of [one] ice-cream cone or two apples." Between 1897 and 1972, Queensland law, for example, saw the wages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers held in government trust. It's estimated that $500 million has never been repaid. Particularly in the pastoral industry, where some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander laborers were bought and sold along with the land they'd been dispatched to work on. The pearling industry also has a dark past in this regard. Source: www.mamamia.com.au/australia-slavery/

www.aussietowns.com.au/town/isisford-qld Historic sheep town.

Try Clonclurry Post & Telegraph Office circa 1910.

Cloncurry is the correct answer!

The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Cloncurry Post Office illustrates the development of Cloncurry and district in the early 20th century and has been the focus of services which played an important part in allowing this geographically isolated town to become a major regional centre.[1] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloncurry_Post_Office

Vesna Verencevic Hello Vesna. One of our staff members was wondering, what are your top ten State Library of Queensland Flickr Commons photographs? It might be fun to do a Vesna's Favourite 10 Photograph Album. If you are interested then send the ten images titles, with their handles to qldmemory@slq.qld.gov.au and have the subject title as "Venena's flickr commons favourites".

Thank you. I did not know what exactly am I allowed to do. I am interested in research in general and would like to know all possibilities I can do as a volunteer. Regards Vesna V.