Historical Information Sheets
The Australian South Sea Islander Historical Information Sheets were prepared by the Historical Advisory Committee of ASSI (PJ) branch. The series of short essays cover the demography of ASSI during the 19th and 20th centuries, the problems of terminology, health and mortality statistics, examples of kidnapping and cruelty, the nature of the ‘recruiting’ practices which included kidnapping and voluntary enlistment.
One Information Sheet concentrates on the Pacific Islanders’ Fund into which, after 1885, was placed the wages of deceased Islanders, some of which were misappropriated by the Queensland Government. There are also details about the ASSI Oral History Collection held at James Cook University, and the ASSI connection with Torres Strait Islanders.
Information Sheet 3
Incidents of abuse of Pacific Islanders during the recruiting process to Queensland.
Information Sheet 5
The Deportation of Australian South Sea Islanders by the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1908.
Information Sheet 9
Australian South Sea Islander demography in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Information Sheet 10
Benjamin Boyd and the Importation of South Sea Islanders into New South Wales in 1847.
Information Sheet 11
The Pacific Islanders’ Fund and the Misappropriation of the Wages of Deceased Pacific Islanders by the Queensland Government.
Information Sheet 16
Australian South Sea Islanders Leadership and Kastom in Pacific Islands Nations.
Information Sheet 17
Australian South Sea Islanders and their Kin Connections to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Information Sheet 19
Recommendations to the The Pacific Declaration of the Preparatory Meeting for Pacific Indigenous Peoples on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014.
Information Sheet 20
Recommendations to United Nations Human Rights – Universal Periodic Review 2015