Australian History

The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labour Trade

11.11.2011 - By La Trobe UniversityPlay

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Dr Tracey Banivanua Mar (History Program, La Trobe University) on the indentured labour trade of the 1800s, in which South Pacific islanders were bought to Australia, at times by force, to work in the sugar fields of northern Queensland.

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