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  "id": 387907,
  "title": "Sydney’s sugar rush: how the colony’s most powerful profited from Australia’s slave trade",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/sydneys-sugar-rush-how-the-colonys-most-powerful-profited-from",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-09T15:00:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
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    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb"
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  "summary": "Australia likes to think its history is untainted by slavery but a new book traces how a who’s who in the NSW capital profited from the capture and sale of ‘blackbirded’ Pacific Islanders Emelda Davis is a former Sydney city councillor, community advocate and second-generation descendant of blackbirded South Sea Islanders . Otherwise known as enslaved people. Australia has often sought to…",
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        "published": "2026-08-09T07:33:22.000Z"
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/09/australia-2-planes-almost-collide-on-sydney-airport-tarmac",
        "published": "2026-08-09T08:30:11.000Z"
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        "title": "Australia investigates near-miss collision of two planes on tarmac at Sydney airport",
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        "published": "2026-08-09T08:34:15.000Z"
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