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The mystery of Bradford Pholi’s disappearance
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The mystery of Bradford Pholi’s disappearance

IT IS Boxing Day, 1982, a young indigenous boy jumps the back fence of his Dundas Valley home to scurry off to Eastwood station — he is on a mission to borrow money for his mother — minutes later his brother goes after him, but Bradford Pholi is never seen again.

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