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Man stands in front of a construction site

South Sea Islanders planting sugar cane at Ayr, Queensland. Circa 1890. They are wearing shirts, pants and hats.

Black and white image group of people from the Pacific stare at camera from a QLD plantation. Their boss sits behind them.

"What the Islanders want … is to use whatever science we have at the moment to try and investigate the entire hospital site to see are there any bodies buried there."

Dr Clarkson letter

A man standing in a grassy cemetery surrounded by graves, with cane fields visible in the background

"The possibility is 1,000 bodies are buried there."

Five people standing in high-visibility jackets over a mound of dirt with shovels in their hands, dirt falls from the shovels

"It goes back one generation … they're not ancient [remains]."

"This agreement may include procedures for work stoppage in case of significant discoveries. To date, we have found no remains at this site."

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