A-Dub 🥝Kanaky was never French
BellingenNSWTurning a blind eye to exploitation in the food chain
"A national program protecting the rights of migrant workers has uncovered millions in unpaid wages, threats of visa cancellation and modern slavery."
"The first year of the $13.5 million scheme, run by the Home Affairs department, has uncovered millions in stolen wages, threats of visa cancellation and cases of "modern slavery" by Australian employers."
"It has identified $1.35 million in potential unpaid wage claims in NSW alone, as well as cases of exploitation and workplace injury where employers have breached the law." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-31/migrant-worker-scheme-uncovers-stolen-wages-modern-slavery/106512360
"Half a million young Australians working in the retail, fast food and pharmacy sectors are set for a wage increase after the Fair Work Commission abolished junior pay rates for those aged 18 and over."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/31/fair-work-abolishes-junior-pay-rates-w
#exploitation #work #IR #NSW #WorkplaceRights #PALM #food #agriculture #meat #consumers #slavery #UnpaidWages #Pasifika #Australia #FoodChains #crime #regulation
Image: Food produced without exploitation, no suffering of humans, animals, and the environment, focusing on fair labour, sustainability, and ethical sourcing.
NZ Immigration Minister Erica Stanford is a bald faced liar 🤥👖🔥
"Government documents show changes aimed at strengthening deportation levers could disproportionately affect Pacific Island nationals, but the Immigration Minister says that won't happen. Erica Stanford said it was "not about racial profiling, it never has been".
go, FHRADC!
"Fiji's human rights watchdog has warned that the country's pro-Israel foreign policy and diplomatic engagement works against its international obligations and could be enabling "genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity" in Gaza."
E TūDoing some research on typefaces and fonts, and found out Sāmoan New Zealander Joseph Churchward's typeface 'Churchward Roundsquare' was used in BUGONIA 🤯 #Film #Pasifika #Sāmoan #Typeface
https://fontsinuse.com/uses/71654/bugonia-movie-poster-and-trailer
Bugonia movie poster and trailer
For Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film, Bugonia, the Greek director has teamed up again with longterm graphic designer Vasilis Marmatakis, At the center of the marketing campaign for the film is a weird geometric typeface called Churchward Roundsquare. The font is one of many design
amen, sister
"Fijian youth climate negotiator Talei Cavu says it is important to hear Pacific voices on climate change on the global stage."
Palm Oil Detectives#News: Is #Australia's #farm labour scheme modern #slavery? 🚜⛓️ For the PALM scheme, #Pasifika workers report exploitation, unsafe housing, pay as low as $80/week. Fair #pay and #workers rights, not exploitation! 🛑🏝️ #IndigenousRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://nit.com.au/20-01-2026/22201/wealth-from-commonwealth-labour-scheme-comes-at-a-modern-slavery-cost-to-pasifika-workers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
https://nit.com.au/20-01-2026/22201/wealth-from-commonwealth-labour-scheme-comes-at-a-modern-slavery-cost-to-pasifika-workers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
'Exploitation, underpayment and poor conditions' - Economic benefit from federal labour scheme comes at steep cost to Pasifika workers
A federal government program recruiting Pacific workers to fill agricultural labour gaps across regional and rural Australia has been compared to the 19th-century indentured 'blackbirding' of South Se...
🕯️Curious Magpie 🕯️Papua continues to be imagined primarily as a strategic zone for national ambition, rather than as a homeland shaped by Indigenous relationships to land and food. — Laurens Minipko
#papua #pasifika #indigenous #foodways
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/why-papuans-want-sago-not-oil/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09Mar2026
#papua #pasifika #indigenous #foodways
https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/why-papuans-want-sago-not-oil/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=09Mar2026
Dr Sarah McLean-Orsborn is a proud tamaita’i Sāmoa. She hails from the villages of Tapatapao, Moamoa, and Papa Satau but continues to call Mulifanua home. She is now a lecturer in Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland, where her research focuses on improving the health and wellbeing of Pacific youth and women. This is her story of how university became home for her:
https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/how-university-became-home/
From a 2019 interview with Dilworth Karaka
Dilworth Karaka: Singing songs of freedom #Herbs #DilworthKaraka #MoeMaiRā #Pasifika #Māori #Indigedon #ETangata
https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/dilworth-karaka-singing-songs-of-freedom/
