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Clip from First Australians | Season 1 | Episode 2 | SBS ONE | April 5, 2015

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In 1847 the colonial government moves surviving 47 Indigenous Tasmanians to a condemned convict settlement, Oyster Cove, in response to complaints of mistreatment at Flinders Island.

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