Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Clive Moore, P. Mercer (1993)
The forgotten immigrants: Australia’s South Sea Islanders, 1906-1991
P. Mercer, C. Moore (1978)
Australia's Pacific Islanders 1906–1977∗Journal of Pacific History, 13
C. Price, E. Baker (1976)
Origins of Pacific Island labourers in Queensland, 1863–1904: A research noteJournal of Pacific History, 11
Marion Diamond (1988)
The Sea Horse and the Wanderer: Ben Boyd in Australia
Adrian Graves (1993)
Cane and Labour: The Political Economy of the Queensland Sugar Industry, 1862-1906
Clive Moore (1999)
'Good-bye, Queensland, good-bye, white Australia; Good-bye, Christians': Australia's South Sea Islander community and deportation, 1901-1908, 4
Clive Moore, P. Mercer (1978)
The Forgotten People: Australia's Immigrant MelanesiansMeanjin, 37
Max Quanchi (1998)
Australia's South Sea Islanders; : a call for recognition(A Commemorative Monograph for the 20th Anniversary of The Pacific Society)
R. Shlomowitz (1987)
Mortality and the Pacific labour trade.Journal of Pacific History, 22
P. Corris (1972)
‘White Australia’ in action: The repatriation of Pacific Islanders from QueenslandAustralian Historical Studies, 15
The Queensland Pacific Islanders' Fund operated between 1885 and the 1900s but is largely unknown today. It was established in the Treasury to facilitate the operation of the Pacific Island Labourers Act 1880 Amendment Act 1885 to safeguard return fares and to ensure that the money due to deceased Islanders was returned to their families. However, over time, because of the high death rates, the wages of deceased Islanders became so substantial that they were able to be used to supplement the administration of the whole labour trade. Money was drawn off to subsidize Islander hospitals and Christian missions, to an extent that in the final 1900s deportation years there was no longer enough money available to pay full fares. The Queensland government seldom returned the full wages to the families of the deceased Islanders and profited largely from their deaths. In today's money, millions of dollars were misappropriated, in similar fashion to wages misappropriated by the same government from Aborigines.
Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley
Published: Mar 1, 2015
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.