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Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 The Black Bushranger
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'In 1831 a New South Wales Aborigine named Musquito was transported to Tasmania following his murder of an Aboriginal woman. At first he was assigned as a servant to a settler, by he soom became famous as a tracker and was employed by the police in hunting down bushrangers.'
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