74. The Palm Islands settlement and St. Anne's Catholic Mission.

The Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement, 36 miles north of Townsville, was established in 1916. By the 1920s it was the largest of the Queensland reserves, being used principally as a place of banishment for Aborigines who had proved "disruptive" elsewhere in the state.

The Catholic Church ran a mission there as well as a hospital and leprosarium on Fantome, a nearby island.

Palm Island was the scene of riots in November 2004 resulting from the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee. This caused the Queensland Government to set up the Palm Island Select Committee to report on the circumstances surrounding the riot and other problems such as unemployment, violence, health and education.