Calls have been made for the Australian and Queensland Governments to officially apologise to the descendants of South Sea Islanders who were victims of the 'blackbirding' trade that brought them to ...

One aspect of the Australian government’s neo-colonial policy toward the island nations of the South Pacific is a proposal to exploit the region’s people as a source of cheap labour—a practice which ...

Eight months into her new job as a City of Sydney councillor, (Waskam) Emelda Davis says she is still not entirely used to sitting in her 19th century Town Hall office. "It's got a bit of a creepy ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Descendants of the South Sea Islanders forced or duped into a form of slavery on Australian ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) There are moves afoot to scrub colonial businessman Benjamin Boyd's name from the map. The owners of historic Boydtown on the NSW south coast are planning to change its name ...

The South Sea Islander community in Brisbane has marked the 150th anniversary of 'blackbirding'. Over four decades, more than 60,000 Islanders were tricked or forced into becoming slave labourers in ...

Australian South Sea Islanders will gather in Brisbane’s State Library of Queensland this weekend to commemorate 150 years of blackbirding at their national Wantok forum Apology sought over ...

A local mayor has entered territory no state or federal politician has ventured after apologising for the blackbirding practices that helped build Queensland's sugarcane industry.

While slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833, it was not until 1904 that blackbirding—the heinous practice of enslaving and exporting South Pacific islanders to the cotton and sugar ...