South Sea Islander patients at Maryborough hospital, November 1888

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1888
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

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Maryborough, QLD
Australia
See map: Google Maps
12 November 2010

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Australian South Sea Islanders

List of South Sea Islander patients at Maryborough hospital, 1888, using an employment register schedule. List shows date admitted, illness, employer plantation and discharge date. This shows how Islander patients were segregated from other patients. Collection of Queensland State Archives

South Sea Islanders receive recognition, 2000

Generations of Australian South Sea Islanders gather on the lawns of the Queensland Parliament to accept recognition, acknowledgement, commitment and understanding from the people of Queensland, 20

Collection of Imelda Miller

Queensland Government Recognition Statement, Australian South Sea Islander Community, 2000

On 7 September 2000, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and the Queensland Parliament in bipartisan solidarity formally recognised the Australian South Sea Islander Community as a distinct cultural g

Collection of the Queensland Museum

Australian South Sea Islanders

When I was a child I would ask my mother where we came from, she would take a tea towel from the drawer and show me a map of the New Hebrides.

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