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Keira Jenkins

Painful removals, mission history detailed at inquiry

Aunty Florence Watson has described the pain of her family at a truth telling inquiry. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

Aboriginal people had to walk in chains, or were forced into the back of a cattle truck to travel to missions across the state, Queensland's truth-telling and healing inquiry has been told.

Aunty Florence Watson told the inquiry the story of her mother, who survived a massacre on the Palmer River in north Queensland in the early 1930s when she was four years old. 

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