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Vanuatu's Australian Aboriginal descendants search for their lost families

Aboriginal Australian descendants with Tukini Tuvai of the Pacific Islands Council, South Australia (far right)
Aboriginal Australian descendants with Tukini Tuvai of the Pacific Islands Council, South Australia (far right) Source: SBS

A group of Australian Aboriginal descendants from Vanuatu are on a mission to find the families their ancestors left behind. Their families are linked to a trade known as ‘blackbirding’, where workers were taken from Pacific islands to labour on Australian sugar farms.


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By Rhiannon Elston, Mai Hoa

Source: SBS



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A group of Australian Aboriginal descendants from Vanuatu are on a mission to find the families their ancestors left behind. Their families are linked to a trade known as ‘blackbirding’, where workers were taken from Pacific islands to labour on Australian sugar farms.



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