The veil is slowly being lifted on the forced or coerced migration – ‘blackbirding’ – of Pacific Islanders for labour What’s in a name? If that name happens to be Townsville, the coastal north-east Queensland city, the answer is: slavery. While he scarcely went to the place that still bears his...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/16/australia-pioneer-colonists-profited-slavery-blackbirding-ntwnfb)