There's fury on Norfolk Island with Australian Federal Police expected to shortly attempt to evict a couple from a house in the island's World Heritage Site.
Leah Honeywood and Damian Finch have been living at Number 8 Quality Row, in a historic officer's house for several months.
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There have been unsuccessful attempts to remove them but now a team of more than a dozen police is preparing to complete the eviction.
A former Norfolk Chief Minister Lisle Snell is stunned by the behaviour of the Canberra bureaucrats.
He said the young couple has every right to remain in the historic house.
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"When the Pitcairners were given absolute right as they understood, and I understand it, the absolute right to the lands of Norfolk, except a few areas which they agreed to, everything else was to be at the use of the Pitcairn Islanders, to use as they had done on Pitcairn Island.
And that is the only reason that they agreed to transfer from Pitcairn Island to Norfolk Island in 1856. Had they known the situation would develop as it has today, they would never have come here," he said.
