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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...

Australia Day and the war canoe

January 30, 2015
Emelda Davis
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The first national Australia Day was held 100 years ago and involved, among other things, a war canoe from the Solomon Islands. Scott Mitchell © Australian Museum For some people, Australia Day evokes thoughts of Governor Phillip, Circular Quay and red-coated soldiers saluting the British flag....

West Indies underwater monument to slavery.

January 20, 2015
Emelda Davis
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Grenada West Indies underwater monument to slavery. Grenada, West Indies. Located in Grenada’s Moilinere Bay, Jason de Caires Taylor’s underwater sculptures are a momument created to pay homage to the hundreds of slaves that sought freedom or were forced to jump overboard slave ships travelling through...

ASSI National Body Constitutional Development Meeting 2014

Dear ASSI Community Leaders, Family and Friends, Greg Sutherland, the chair of the National Australian South Sea Islanders Governance Working Group, is travelling from Mackay to Sydney to consult and gather feedback from ASSI communities/families/friends in Sydney and surrounding areas on the...

John Mackay – Blackbirder

This weekend Australian South Sea Islanders are holding WANTOK in Mackay, the last of three national workshops aimed at bringing together the diverse Islander community. The first of their ancestor were brought to Mackay in 1867, just a few years after the founding of the settlement in 1860. What...

Wantok 2014 Media Release 26-03-2014

WANTOK 2014 (Mackay) Prioritizes Governance Education and Democratic Representation at the Mackay March Forum Cook Lecture Theatre – Central Queensland University Mackay – 28–31 March 2014 Emelda Davis, President of the Interim National Body for the Australian South Sea Islanders announces:...