Toowong Cemetery, 1991. The great and the good command the best views. The poor rest in the hollows. As in life, the dead were discriminated against. Slides by Ruth Read, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

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Graves, Normanton Cemetery, 1986. In the Gulf country many children’s graves are surrounded by the cot they died in as some mothers would not let a newborn sleep in a cot in which a previous child had died. Slides by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

The crowd cheers as points are scored, yet few spectators at the Suncorp Stadium realise that the stadium is built over some of Queensland’s earliest cemeteries.

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