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Modern-day blackbirding and Australia's food supply chain

"60,000 South Sea Islanders came to Australia as slaves or cheap labour from 1863."

"Now, 123 years after many were forced back to South Sea Islands, Australia's latest Pacific worker scheme is attracting allegations of exploitation, which are being investigated by the Anti-Slavery Commissioner in New South Wales, James Cockayne." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-03/30-year-anniversary-of-pacific-blackbirding-recognition-slavery/104739826
#food #exploitation #work #servitude #PALM #IR #mobility #HumanRights #NSW #Pacific #blackbirding #slavery #plantations #sugar #cotton #SupplyChains #australia

It's 160 years since the #blackbirding era began. It's not just #history for #descendants of those who were taken. https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/sugar-slavery-queensland-160-year-anniversary-blackbirding-began/102763852 #australia #ASSI #AustralianSouthSeaIslanders #pasifika #slavery #kanaka #sugar #cotton

It's 160 years since the #blackbirding era began. It's not just #history for #descendants of those who were taken. https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/sugar-slavery-queensland-160-year-anniversary-blackbirding-began/102763852 #australia #ASSI #AustralianSouthSeaIslanders #pasifika #slavery #kanaka #sugar #cotton

It's 160 years since the #blackbirding era began. It's not just #history for #descendants of those who were taken. https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/sugar-slavery-queensland-160-year-anniversary-blackbirding-began/102763852 #australia #ASSI #AustralianSouthSeaIslanders #pasifika #slavery #kanaka #sugar #cotton

It's 160 years since the #blackbirding era began. It's not just #history for #descendants of those who were taken. https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/sugar-slavery-queensland-160-year-anniversary-blackbirding-began/102763852 #australia #ASSI #AustralianSouthSeaIslanders #pasifika #slavery #kanaka #sugar #cotton

It's 160 years since the #blackbirding era began. It's not just #history for #descendants of those who were taken. https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/sugar-slavery-queensland-160-year-anniversary-blackbirding-began/102763852 #australia #ASSI #AustralianSouthSeaIslanders #pasifika #slavery #kanaka #sugar #cotton

https://archive.org/details/consuming-whiteness

Consuming Whiteness: Australian Racism and the ›White Sugar‹ Campaign by Stefanie Affeldt

Topics
#australia, #sugar, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #sugarrefining, #sugarplantations, #whiteaustralia, #whiteaustraliapolicy, #genocide, #colonialism, #britishcolonialism, #europeancolonialism, #invadercolonialism, #whitenationalism, #consumerism, #queensland, #blackbirding, #labororganizing, #laboractivism, #sugarstrike

The ›white Australia policy‹ has so far largely been discussed with regard only to the political-ideological perspective. No account was taken of the central problem of racist societalization, that is the everyday production and reproduction of ›race‹ as a social relation (›doing race‹) which was supported by broad sections of the population.