Australia resumes slave trade in the Pacific Islands region

Private View

The recent implementation of the “Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme, which allows certain number of countries in the Pacific Islands region to participate by sending cheap laborers to work in farms in Australia and New Zealand, should not be taken lightly. In my view, this is a modern “Slave-Trade” and a repeat of the Australian history of the Black-birding Days in Melanesia in 1847 to 1904, where villagers of various islands, known as Kanakas, were deceitfully forced and taken to work in cotton and sugar plantations in Australia.   I have every reason to believe that the new scheme is an old one with a modern term.

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