Amazing insight into history of a disease and it's impact on aboriginal peoples and its treatment here in Australia - something that we knew absolutely nothing about until we chanced on this film on NITV tonight . Beautifully told through the eyes of then seventy year old Joe Eggmolese who had been incarcerated there for ten years from age seven, using photographs and flashback film footage of life on the island and the nuns who cared for the patients there. Joe's humour and ability to laugh at himself and some of his experiences helped take the edge off what we were watching as a very sad episode yet again in Australia's history . Thank you for this history lesson told in such an interesting way.
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