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"In the 1920s nothing fundamentally changed about the lot or the rights of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders removed from their homelands, but the sheer scope of the segregation policy meant that rough camps had to be turned into permanent settlements. Work stepped up at Barambah, and by the end of the decade more than 40 family cottages, girls’ and boys’ dormitories, a shop, a proper ration shed, a two-roomed school and a hospital had been built. And the settlement had a new name. After complaints from nearby Barambah Station that their mail was being wrongly directed, authorities renamed the community Cherbourg, not for any romantic French connotation but for the parish in which it sat. This is the Cherbourg that the community’s Ration Shed Museum, established in 2004 to mark the settlement’s centenary, commemorates, if not quite celebrates. And yet, despite the dark history of oppression and cruelty that surrounds it, there is much to celebrate in the heroic and uplifting stories of those who survived, and some that thrived." Source:https://noosatoday.com.au/news/21-12-2020/the-people-of-the-settlement/

Fun !

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mal's Best of the Best, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Favorite of the day! So good.

they need to bring this sport back!

This looks fun, I want to play! But I want a helmet.

Wonderful image. I inherited a Sunderland Lustre Ware plate from an elderly relative. It is of "The ships compass", by the Fortress Pottery and the date is some time after 1814. It is in my photostream.

Outstanding picture

I used to always want to be a professional polo player

Captain J. B. Thomas, Jr. of the American team playing in Lakewood, New Jersey for the international championship. (April 4, 1910 in the New York Times) query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9803E4D71430E2...

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