National park
St Helena Island National Park
Ruined convict-era penal settlement on a Moreton Bay island, with old workshops and a sugar mill.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St Helena Island National Park in Brisbane follows William Hamilton, a shearers' strike leader sent to this former penal island after an eighteen ninety-one wage dispute turned violent near Clermont. It traces the self-sufficient convict economy that once ran here, from the sugar mill to the brickworks, and the choice authorities later gave Hamilton about how his sentence would end. Look toward the old workshop ruins as you listen, where that unpaid labour once built the island's income.
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