Dozens of unmarked graves of South Sea Islanders have been rediscovered in the central Queensland city of Mackay as it marks the 150th anniversary of the first labourers arriving.
A trade known as blackbirding saw tens of thousands of islanders, sometimes forcibly taken, work in the agricultural industry in what are described as slave-like conditions.
Today Mackay still bears the name of one of the labour traders, and has the largest South Sea Islander population in Australia.
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