The Labor Trade in Melanesians to Queensland: An Historiography Essay

Munro, Doug

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“…More people from Epi were recruited to Queensland than any other island except Malaita – an island many times its population (Price & Baker : 114). Munro () outlines a pertinent debate surrounding the Queensland labour trade, between those historians who emphasize voluntary recruitment and islander agency, versus those who foreground coercion and exploitation. It seems that in Epi, kidnapping and abuse were prevalent in the early period, but gradually workers actively sought to recruit.…”

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Be our guest/worker: reciprocal dependency and expressions of hospitality in Ni‐Vanuatu overseas labour migration

Smith

2019

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Whilst there has been renewed interest in the development potential of temporary migration programmes, such schemes have long been criticized for creating conditions for exploitation and fostering dependence. In this article, which is based on a case study of Ni‐Vanuatu seasonal workers employed in New Zealand's horticultural industry, I show how workers and employers alike actively cultivate and maintain relations of reciprocal dependence and often describe their relation in familial terms of kinship and hospitality. Nevertheless, workers often feel estranged both in the Marxian sense of being subordinated to a regime of time‐discipline, and in the intersubjective sense of feeling disrespected or treated unkindly. I show how attention to the ‘non‐contractual element’ in the work contract, including expressions of hospitality, can contribute to anthropological debates surrounding work, migration, and dependence, and to interdisciplinary understandings of the justice of labour migration.

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Be our guest/worker: reciprocal dependency and expressions of hospitality in Ni‐Vanuatu overseas labour migration

Smith

2019

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…The history of Pacific Island labour in North Queensland is as extensive as it is contested (Munro, 1995). While it is not the intent of this article to detail that history, or to engage in the historiographical debate, a short summary shows that by 1863, sugar cane farmers in northern Queensland recruited Pacific Islanders, mainly Melanesians, to work as indentured labourers on the cane fields.…”

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Charles Brunsdon Fletcher, the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, Asia and the Pacific

Heekeren

2015

Media International Australia

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Based on the premise of journalism as a text resulting from intellectual endeavour, this article undertakes a sustained examination of the thought of author and newspaper editor Charles Brunsdon Fletcher (1859–1946) in relation to Asia and the Pacific. It examines three books and lead newspaper editorials published during Fletcher's time as editor of the Brisbane Courier (1898–1903) and the Sydney Morning Herald (1918–37). Fletcher argued that geographic proximity necessitated closer ties between Australia and her neighbours, while the White Australia policy had restricted Australia's potential for economic and population growth – particularly in the tropical north. Such views placed Fletcher among a small but articulate movement of the period, which encouraged greater understanding of Australia's regional neighbours. In identifying such sentiment in newspaper editorials, this research reveals greater diversity in opinion in Australian journalism on migration and race than was previously known.

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“…7 For a standout account of the coal-driven political economy of 1960s-70s Queensland, see Galligan (1989). For a selection of astute analyses of industrial relations, political activism, racial exploitation and wartime state intervention in Queensland's economy, see Bowden et al (2009), Brennan (1992), Cameron (1997), Evans (1988), Ferrier (2004), Evans, Saunders andCronin (1993), Gough et al (1964), Harris (1984), Lewis (1973), May (1994), Megarrity (2018), Menghetti (1981), Munro (1995), Murphy (1968), Murphy (1983), Ørsted-Jensen (2011), which makes the convincing argument that Queensland's colonial era history and politics needs revisiting and renewed scholarly scrutiny, Piccini (2010), Richards (2008), Saunders (1993Saunders ( , 2011b, Svensen (1989) and Thorpe (1996). 8…”

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‘A long revolution’: The historical coverage of Queensland politics and government

Salisbury¹

2021

Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice

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The Labor Trade in Melanesians to Queensland: An Historiography Essay

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Be our guest/worker: reciprocal dependency and expressions of hospitality in Ni‐Vanuatu overseas labour migration

Be our guest/worker: reciprocal dependency and expressions of hospitality in Ni‐Vanuatu overseas labour migration

Charles Brunsdon Fletcher, the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, Asia and the Pacific

‘A long revolution’: The historical coverage of Queensland politics and government

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