February 2015 – Page 3 – Australian South Sea Islanders

Centrelink – A change is a coming.

Centrelink questionnaire now including “Are you an Australian South Sea Islander ” & definition Question 18 & 19 which are optional and will not affect your payment. If you do answer, the information it will help us to continue to improve services to Aboriginal and Torres...

Letter from Alex Greenwich

Attached is a letter from Alex Greenwich (Member for Sydney) regarding census count for ASSI in 2016 (image) Wantok Mackay 2014 – consensus was that we stay with the term Australian South Sea Islanders but provide drop down explanations / description yet to be decided.

Wantok moves ahead to reach National Goal in Mackay QLD.

February 5, 2015
Emelda Davis
Wantok 2014

Wantok moves ahead to reach National Goal in Mackay QLD. The 2013 National Secretariat Model has been dissolved at Wantok 2014 Mackay. In its place an ASSI Governance Working Group has been formed to progress the developments of a constitution for a National body representation. The new administration...

Daniel Boyd has become the first indigenous/ASSI man to win the Bulgari Art Award

Daniel Boyd has become the first indigenous/ASSI man to win the Bulgari Art Award, one of Australia’s richest cultural accolades. The Cairns-born, Sydney-based artist received the $80,000 award from Italian jewellery brand Bulgari for a work based on a 19th-century photograph from Vanuatu....

West Papua Activism conference participants

February 5, 2015
Emelda Davis
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West Papua Activism conference participants Oceanscapes cooperations across the Pacific – Australian Association for Pacific Studies Conference 22-26 April, 2014 Macleay Museum. Ronny Kareni & West Papua Activism & Mereani Navukitu – AAPS 2014

‘BLACKBIRD’ Archibald prize entry portrait of Emelda Davis

February 5, 2015
Emelda Davis
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‘BLACKBIRD’ The Archibald prize entry portrait of Emelda Davis by Miranda . Artwork of a community leader championing the rights of Australian South Sea Islanders. Do you know about the Vanuatu people taken and slaved on the cane-fields in Australia?”

Interview with Prof. Gracelyn Smallwood – Nelson Mandella

Interview with Prof. Gracelyn Smallwood – Nelson Mandella Interview with Prof. Gracelyn Smallwood – Nelson Mandella a humble freedom fighter / Torres News By MARK BOUSEN. The late Madiba Nelson Mandela was a humble freedom fighter who promoted truth, justice and reconciliation with violence,...

A young woman of charm, ability and undoubted influence!

February 5, 2015
Emelda Davis
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Kaiya Aboagye (nee Oliver) with Prime Minister & former minister – an accomplished Aboriginal, Torres Strait, Australian South Sea Islander and African Women. Kaiya Aboagye (2007) (centre) pictured last February with former Minister, Jenny Macklin, and former PM, Julia Gillard, co-authors...

Month: February 2015