Modern-day blackbirding and Australia's food supply chain

"60,000 South Sea Islanders came to Australia as slaves or cheap labour from 1863."

"Now, 123 years after many were forced back to South Sea Islands, Australia's latest Pacific worker scheme is attracting allegations of exploitation, which are being investigated by the Anti-Slavery Commissioner in New South Wales, James Cockayne." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-03/30-year-anniversary-of-pacific-blackbirding-recognition-slavery/104739826
#food #exploitation #work #servitude #PALM #IR #mobility #HumanRights #NSW #Pacific #blackbirding #slavery #plantations #sugar #cotton #SupplyChains #australia

Say Our Name exhibition marks 30 years since recognition of South Sea Islanders

It's been 30 years since Australian South Sea Islanders were recognised as a distinct group, but an exhibition to mark the occasion comes amid accusations of the modern-day slavery of Pacific Islander workers.

ABC News
Sugar, slavery and Queensland: It's 160 years since the blackbirding era began - ABC Pacific

More than 60,000 Pacific Islanders were brought to Australia to work on the cotton, and later, sugarcane plantations. Jimmy was one of the many teenagers who was kidnapped or "blackbirded".

ABC Pacific
Unpapering the cracks: sugar, slavery and the Sydney Morning Herald

Recently, The Guardian revealed its links to slavery and the cane fields – but less well-known is The Sydney Morning Herald’s links to sugar and the slave trade.

The Conversation

https://archive.org/details/consuming-whiteness

Consuming Whiteness: Australian Racism and the ›White Sugar‹ Campaign by Stefanie Affeldt

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#australia, #sugar, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #sugarrefining, #sugarplantations, #whiteaustralia, #whiteaustraliapolicy, #genocide, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #europeancolonialism, #invadercolonialism, #whitenationalism, #consumerism, #queensland, #blackbirding, #labororganizing, #laboractivism, #sugarstrike

The ›white Australia policy‹ has so far largely been discussed with regard only to the political-ideological perspective. No account was taken of the central problem of racist societalization, that is the everyday production and reproduction of ›race‹ as a social relation (›doing race‹) which was supported by broad sections of the population.

Consuming Whiteness: Australian Racism and the ›White Sugar‹ Campaign : Stefanie Affeldt : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The ›white Australia policy‹ has so far largely been discussed with regard only to the political-ideological perspective. No account was taken of the...

Internet Archive
Here's my story about the incredible but short life of Jack Renton in The Orkney News #Orkney #blackbirding #survival
https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/12/13/the-extraordinary-life-of-orcadian-jack-renton/
The Extraordinary Life of Orcadian Jack Renton.

When Jack Renton was ‘rescued’ by the Royal Naval schooner ‘Bobtail Nag’ in 1875 a survival tale unfolded which to this day amazes those who hear of it. This is his story.

The Orkney News