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Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897

Reflections Senior priests and elders outside a ration shed museum Reflections

"No wonder the writer of the Gospel according to John talks of the truth setting us free"

“Monday’s event at Cherbourg had originally been organised as part of the Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry commissioned by the previous Queensland Government and cancelled by the current one. Given that the Inquiry had lined up 20 elders to tell their stories, the Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council decided to host the event so that those who had gone through the emotional process of preparing for the hearing could be honoured,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt