Mass Deportation
Mass Deportation – Historical facts extracts from powerpoint for – INDENTURED LABOUR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Port Louis, Mauritius compiled by Emelda Davis and Professor Clive Moore
Month: February 2015
Mauritius Indentured Labour 180th Commemoration Ceremony 2014
Reenactment commemoration ceremonies 180 years since the first indentured Indian labourers were brought to Mauritius. In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the British Government selected the island of Mauritius to be...
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre launch 2014
LIVERPOOL LORD MAYOR (far right), SAMOA HIGH COMMISSIONER (far left), VANUATU HIGH COMMISSIONER (middle)
Vanuatu High Commissioner Mr Kalfau Kaloris introduces WANTOK NSW at the Casula Power House Arts Centre – Pacific Gods Program acknowledging ancestors and work to date for ASSI recognition...
National Governance Working Group
National Governance Working Group
ROCKHAMPTON CONSTITUTION CONSULTATION with the NASSIGWG 17/10/2014. feedback…
RANDALL WARKILL –
Thought I’d take this opportunity to update on the Rockhampton ASSI National Body meeting, held Friday 17th.
The Item for discussion “The Draft...
Poem entitled “WANTOK had a breakthrough”
WANTOK had a breakthrough – written by Veronica Griffin.
WANTOK had a breakthrough
Wantok had a break through
Wow how’s that
Wantok had a break through
Now a working group has been selected
Wantok had a break through
How deadly …Oh how deadly
Wantok had a break through
My people from near and...
Oxfam – Growing Food in A Changing Climate
(left) Lola Forester,Emelda Davis,Shirley Tokon (program manager Climate Change Adaption), Mala Silas (Adaption Officer) – University of Sydney presentation
Climate change is the single biggest threat in the global fight against hunger, and our neighbours in the Pacific are particularly vulnerable....
LOST IDENTITY 2014
Raechel Ivey has received citizenship in Vanuatu after finding documents proving that her great-grandparents were kidnapped in the 1800s to become slaves. Raechel’s great-grandparents James Tuku and Fanny Battingarra Contributed when Raechel Ivey first stepped foot in Vanuatu, she knew she was...
Shared history honoured at Veresdale
Emotions ran high on Saturday when a sculpture honouring the history between Australian South Sea Islanders (ASSI), the Mununjali community and Veresdale landholders was unveiled.
The six metre high two-tonne sculpture was hand-crafted from a fallen 200 year-old iron bark log, that was found...
Joe Eggmolesse, AO recipient 2014
A Maryborough man has been awarded the Order of Australia medal for his service to the Indigenous community.Selwyn Joel Eggmolesse, better known as Joe, has devoted his life to community service, working for government organisations and non-for-profit groups.
Mr Eggmolesse said hearing of the...
Solomon Islands Independence Day
Solomon Islands Independence Day at Consulate of Solomon Islands premises Sir Trevor Garland 2014