White children and Pacific Islander attendants, Hambledon Sugar Plantation, c1891

White children and their Pacific Islander attendants at the Hambledon Sugar Plantation outside Cairns, c1891.

Collection of the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image 172486

South Sea Islander patients at Maryborough hospital, November 1888

Maryborough, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1888
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

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 Islander School Children, Mackay, 1932

Mackay, QLD
Australia
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1 January 1932
12 November 2010
12 November 2010

Location

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

Collection of Queensland State Archives

Australian South Sea Islanders

List of South Sea Islander School Children, Pleystowe, Walkerston and Dumbleton Schools, Mackay. Noted are ages, grade, school and remarks about where the children live and how they get to school.

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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South Sea Islander huts, Childers, 1904

South Sea Islander huts, Farnbro, Childers, 1904. Queensland agricultural journal, 1904. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Group of South Sea Islanders, Watawa Plantation, Bingera, 1897

Group of South Sea Islanders, Watawa Plantation, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islanders cutting cane, Bingera, 1897

South Sea Islanders cutting cane, Bingera, 1897. Queensland agricultural journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

South Sea Islanders planting cane, Bingera, 1897

South Sea Islanders planting cane, Bingera, 1897. Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1897. Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

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