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People sent to Peel Island leper colony off Queensland coast to be ‘isolated from society’

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For 52 years people were removed from their homes and forced to live on an island off the Queensland coast. 

More than 500 people were sent to a colony on Peel Island in Moreton Bay, east of Brisbane, from 1907 until its closure in 1959.

They all had one thing in common — they had been…



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