Margy lost her island home in the bushfires. She won't be returning to rebuild | HatAlexander
What Crown Lands could not achieve, the New Year's Eve bushfires managed to accomplish: the eviction of the last person living on Chinamans Island from her home.
Last year government officials locked up four of the cottages, triggering a showdown with the descendants of the original lessees. Ms Butler, 62, is allowed to build again, but could not leave a new house to her son when she died. She has decided not to return there to live. But other families are challenging the government over its repossession of their parents' properties. None of the houses that survived the fire were legally tenanted.
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