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When the steamship Aorangi docked in Sydney in 1929 they were given the kind of homecoming in Sydney you d expect for troops returning from the battlefield.
But soon some of the young passengers fall ill and Australia is plunged into a quarantine panic.
Peter Hobbins is an Historian of science, technology and medicine and Principal Historian at Artefact Heritage Services in Sydney.
Duration: 17min 40sec