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How local convicts ended up on right side of law

When free settlers began arriving after the Moreton Bay penal colony closed in 1842 they, understandably, weren’t keen on convicts and ex-convicts being in charge of law and order, yet that’s exactly what happened, writes Dot Whittington.

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