South Sea Islander patients at Maryborough hospital, November 1888

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1888
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
12 November 2010

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Australian South Sea Islanders

List of South Sea Islander patients at Maryborough hospital, 1888, using an employment register schedule. List shows date admitted, illness, employer plantation and discharge date. This shows how Islander patients were segregated from other patients. Collection of Queensland State Archives

South Sea Islander School Children, Mackay, 1932

Mackay, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1932
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

Mackay, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
12 November 2010

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Australian South Sea Islanders

List of South Sea Islander School Children, Pleystowe, Walkerston and Dumbleton Schools, Mackay. Noted are ages, grade, school and remarks about where the children live and how they get to school.

Plan of Palm Island Compound, 1931

Plan of Palm Island Compound, Justices Department, 7 January 1931. Collection of Queensland State Archives. Palm Island compound (1930) built on the principle of segregation akin to apartheid.  Palm Islanders were banned from entering tree lined Mango Avenue where white staff members were housed.

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Palm Island

Palm Island is situated in north Queensland, 65 kilometres northwest of Townsville, in Halifax Bay. It is the largest Indigenous community of Queensland.

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