This black-and-white photograph shows Pacific Islanders mustered at the Cairns Court House in Queensland awaiting a medical examination prior to their deportation under the Australian Government's 1901 Pacific Island Labourers Act. The group, including a woman, some children and an Islander holding a bicycle, would probably be returning to islands such as the New Hebrides (later Vanuatu) and the Solomons. They wait in an orderly fashion in a picket-fenced grassy yard with tropical vegetation and hills in the background.
Credits | Reproduced courtesy of State Library of Queensland
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Creator | Ruddle, photographer, 1906 |
Identifiers | State Library of Queensland image number 23842
TLF resource R8010 |
Source | State Library of Queensland, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au |