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Campers sleeping on unmarked graves: The dark history behind an island paradise

Nearly 4,000 Indigenous men and boys were imprisoned on Wadjemup Island, with 373 buried in unmarked graves beneath a former campground now closed for heritage preservation.

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By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — From the shorelines of Perth in southwestern Australia, a towering blue hill can be seen jutting out of the horizon. Some days it seems so close you could touch it. Other days it’s hidden by mist or passing ships. “Sometimes it wants to be seen and sometimes it wants to hide in the shadows,” says Glen Stasiuk, lecturer at Murdoch University and director of the 2014 documentary “Wadjemup: Black Prison — White Play…

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KIFI broke the news in Idaho Falls, United States on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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