Australian farmers grew rich using phosphate fertilisers. And for more than 80 years they were supplied largely from two tiny islands in the Pacific. For one island, Nauru, which was administered for many years by Australia, the phosphates have brought riches. But a different fate awaited the inhabitants of the other, Banaba, at the hands of Britain. Last month, a British foreign minister again washed his hands of the affair.
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