Main Document Files:
Resolution of City of Sydney Council. (130kb pdf)

Transcript: (Waskam) Emelda Davis speech (80kb pdf)

Supporting Documents:
01. Human rights and Equal Opportunity Commission – The Call for recognition: a report on the situation of Australian South Sea Islanders. (15.3mb pdf)

02. Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) 25 August 1994, “Australian South Sea Islanders”. (398kb pdf)

03. Keating Government recognition speech – Mr Lavarch (Attorney-General) 25 August 1994. (130kb pdf)

04. Premier’s Memorandum, Bob Carr, October 1995 – Identifier: M1995-42 (Australian South Sea Islander Community. (168kb pdf)

05. Alex Greenwich, Resolutions passed in New South Wales Parliament, 15 August 2013: Australian South Sea Islander Recognition Day. (66kb pdf)

06. Community Relations Commission – Letter to NSW CEOs regarding: Australian South Sea Islanders. (90kb pdf)

07. Aborigines Act 1934 (SA). (720kb pdf)

08. Submission to the Modern Slavery Act Inquiry – 130617. (511kb pdf)

09. Inner West Council to fly Australian South Sea Islander flag – 16 July 2018. (30kb file)

10. Australian Public Law, “The High Court and Respect for Australian South Sea Islanders”. (205kb pdf)

11. Historical Analysis and Evaluation Report – Benjamin Boyd’s role in 19th Century Blackbirding in the Pacific for labour in New South Wales. (550kb pdf)

12. Parliament of Australia, Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, “Strengthening Australia’s relationships in the Pacific”. (1.4mb pdf)

13. Emelda Davis, University of Technology, Sydney, Thesis – Children of the Sugar Slaves: Black and Resilient. (6.2mb pdf)

14. Clive Moore – Hardwork: Australian South Sea Islander Biography. (1.7mb pdf)

15. Journal of Australian Studies – Ways of knowing, being and doing: A theoretical framework and methods for indigenous and indigenist re‐search. (970kb pdf)

16. Close the gap campaign report 2022. (8.6mb pdf)