Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade
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Jacob MontefioreWilliam WalshKing OscarBenjamin BoydGeorge RaffRobert MackenzieGraham MylneGordon SandemanHenry MooreWilliam Ducket WhiteRobert TownsJohn FairfaxHenry LewinJames BurnsEmelda DavisRyan ButtaBurns PhilpJohn FenwickQueensland Legislative AssemblyColonial Sugar Refining Company
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Sun, 9 August 2026
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Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders