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Reports on the Trade Union Movement in the Pacific Islands

  • AU PMB MS 1195
  • Collection
  • 1981-1997

Jim Falk (University of Wollongong), A New Force in the Nuclear Conflict: the Birth of the Pacific Trade Union Forum, Jun 1981. Ts., p/c, 32pp.
Michael Hamel-Green (People for Nuclear Disarmament), The Second Pacific Trade Union Forum Conference, Noumea, New Caledonia, 26-28 September 1982. A report on the background, proceedings and outcome of the conference, 1982. Ts., p/c, 22pp.
Michael Easson (Assistant Secretary of the Labor Council of NSW), Left and Labor in the Pacific. Contribution to Hoover Institute, Stanford University, Seminar on ‘The Red Orchestra in the Pacific’, n.d. Ts., p/c, 65pp.
R Hogan (Victorian State Secretary, Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union), Report to ACTU Executive on Pacific Trade Union Conference held at Auckland, New Zealand, May 18-May 20, 1986, 3 Mar 1987. Ts., p/c, 35pp plus attachments.
Raghwan (Education Officer, ICFTU/APRO Pacific Office), ICFTU/APRO Education Project, Brisbane, Australia. 1. Report, Proceedings and Recommendations of the ICFTU/APRO Pacific Education Project Review and Planning Workshop, 26-18th April, 1989; 2. Conclusion of Steering Committee Meeting of the South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions (SPOCTU), 28th April”, 1989. Ts., p/c, c.60pp.
Minutes of the ICFTU/APRO Pacific Structure Steering Committee meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 28 Apr 1989. Ts., 6pp.
Michael Kinnane (Executive Officer, South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions), Trade Unions in the Island Countries of the South Pacific Region: an overview, Jan 1990. Ts., p/c, 7pp., plus attachments.
Michael Kinnane (Executive Officer, South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions), Trade Unions in the South Pacific: some observations, 4 Sep 1990. Ts., 12pp.
Pratap Chand, Ken Douglas & Bill Mansfield (South Pacific Union Development Program Steering Committee), Review of the South Pacific Union Program, May 1997. Ts., 30pp.

Australian Council of Trade Unions

Combat Ouvrier, Union Syndicale des Travailleurs Kanaks et des Exploites (USTKE), Noumea.

  • AU PMB DOC 481
  • Collection
  • 1992-2001

In the most industrial country in Oceania, labour unions are quite strong and active, and at times their strikes become militant and political, pushing politicians to complain or listen, for example, on the issue of favoring local hiring that was inscribed in both the Noumea Accord and the organic laws that followed (nc, 18 Oct 2007). Faced with rising living costs, they also want their share of the proceeds from economic development, so the minimum monthly wage was raised in January to 120,000 Pacific francs, or about us$1,200 (nc, 8 Jan 2007). Mining unions noted the rising price of nickel and demanded a corresponding increase in wages, and those in various support or service sectors felt likewise. But social dialogue between workers and employers has all too often not gone smoothly in New Caledonia, leading to roadblocks with burning tires and work stoppages without enough action by the State, positive or negative (nc, 4 Sep, 2 Oct, 9 Oct 2007). France too has its powerful labor unions who strike militantly, but in late 2007 Sarkozy battled transporters over pension reforms, while a thousand people marched in Noumea against “terrorism” by local unions (BBC News, 13 Nov 2007; nc, 12 Nov 2007). For example, USTKE, which Estrosi had criticized, blocked the local cement industry and urban bus company for months—along with other strikes to support favoring local hiring and protecting workers fired for union activities—and in October USTKE called a general strike because the police had intervened (nc, 13 Oct 2007). After testing the waters in the presidential and legislative elections by backing Bove and then its own candidates, respectively, USTKE defied appeals by the FLNKS not to divide the Kanak vote and formed its own Labor Party in November, with support from metropolitan Trotskyists, dedicating itself to independence, anti-globalization, and revolutionary socialism (nc, 16 Nov 2007). It remained one of the two largest unions, as labor leaders compete for membership using dramatic strikes to attract support (nc, 12 April 2007). From David Chappell, “Political review: New Caledonia”, The Contemporary Pacific 12.2 (2000) 515-520.
After a decade, in 2007, USTKE started a new series of Combat Ouvrier, again as a monthly, renumbering from No.1. No.8, Feb 2008, up to No.27, Nov 2010, are available on the web at: http://ustke.org/pdf.html.

Combat Ouvrier, Nos.1-43, 45-49, 51-54, 1992-2001, published monthly.
See Finding aids for details.

Union Syndicale des Travailleurs Kanaks et des Exploites (Ustke)

Somare: a political biography of the first Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea

  • AU PMB MS 1229
  • Collection
  • 1991

Basil Shaw BA, BEd, DPE (Qld), MA (Ed., London), PhD, completed his biography of Michael Somare as a PhD dissertation in the Division of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland.

A study of traditional leadership in Papua New Guinean societies provides the conceptual framework for Basil Shaw’s, Somare: A Political Biography of the First Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. His study examines Somare’s life from his birth in the Murik Lakes in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea in 1936 to his loss of the prime ministership of Papua New Guinea in 1985.

The study is presented in two parts. The first part, Chapters 1-4, establishes a need for a biography of Somare and identifies three major objectives: firstly, to review the material in Somare’s autobiography, Sana, which covers the period to 1975, and to add to it where possible; secondly, to update Somare’s life to 1985, when he lost the prime ministership for the second time, and thirdly to explore the relationship between traditional leadership and contemporary political leadership at the national level.

The second part of the study, Chapters 5 to 10, is the political biography proper. The early chapters focus on the developmental stages of Somare’s life, showing how the leadership characteristics of oratory, effective communication, negotiating ability and the determination to retain power function in the National Parliament. The latter chapters of this part of the dissertation examine the difficulties that Somare and others faced in the introduction of the Westminster system of government into Papua New Guinea. The challengers whom Somare has faced as a political leader, and the issues which deprived him of government in 1980 and 1985, are also examined. (From Basil Shaw’s ‘Abstract’.)

Shaw, Basil John

Autobiography: Every Goose a Swan, Volume 2

  • AU PMB MS 1230
  • Collection
  • 1993

Bob Langdon, the first executive officer of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, 1968-1984, established his reputation as a Pacific Specialist with the publication of his history of Tahiti, <i>Island of Love</i>, in London in 1959. As a journalist with the <i>Pacific Islands Monthly (PIM)</i>, 1962-67, he travelled extensively in the Islands on assignments producing investigative articles, many on obscure aspects of Pacific history. It was in the <i>PIM</i>, too, that Bob first published his account of the marooned Spanish sailors on Amanu in the Tuamotu Islands. This discovery became the basis of his studies of European castaways in the Pacific Islands, prior to Captain Cook, which appeared in his books, <i>The Lost Caravel</i> (1975) and <i>The Lost Caravel Re-explored</i> (1988), and in his many articles published in scholarly journals.

The first volume of Langdon’s autobiography, <i>Every Goose a Swan: An Australian Autobiography</i> (Sydney, Farm Cove Press, 1995) takes the reader up to 1959 when, as a journalist in Adelaide, Langdon was attracted by an advertisement for a ‘Journalist-printer wanted for Polynesian islands’.

Volumes 2, of Langdon’s autobiography, Ts., 107pp., Chs.46-65, and Epilogue, gives an account of Langdon’s work as a journalist on the <i>Pacific Islands Monthly</i>, his recruitment to the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau by Harry Maude, his experiences at the Australian National University, his expeditions to the Pacific islands, his work for the Australian government’s South Pacific Cultures Fund, and his pusuit of his unorthodox views on the migration of the Pacific Islanders.

Langdon, Robert Adrian (1924-2003)

Fiji Oral History Project in association with the Fiji Museum, Part 1: Part-Europeans and Europeans, transcripts of audio recording series, PMB Audio 1-35

  • AU PMB MS 1235
  • Collection
  • 1998-1999

This oral history audio media project, called the Fiji Oral History Project Part 1: Part-Europeans and Europeans, comprises 28 taped interviews with 26 senior members of these communities living in Fiji and Australia. The interviews were conducted by Marsali MacKinnon from 1998 to 1999. They trace the history of a number of Part-European and European families in Fiji through the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning with the first arrival of their European ancestors. A fresh and vibrant collection of many previously un-recorded personal memoirs, as well as family stories passed down the generations, it is a significant contribution to the social history and intangible heritage of Fiji - and the South Pacific region.

PMB AUDIO 1 Moira Hedstrom (née Deitrich) p.2
PMB AUDIO 2 Hubert “Jumbo” Sabben p.18
PMB AUDIO 3-4 Bill Miller, Interview No.1, Part 1 p.36
PMB AUDIO 5-6 Bill Miller, Interview No.2 p.55
PMB AUDIO 7 Dorothy Walker p.75
PMB AUDIO 8 Maureen Southwick (née Storck) p.78
PMB AUDIO 9 Henry Sahai p.93
PMB AUDIO 10 Tui Levuka p.100
PMB AUDIO 11 George Gibson p.103
PMB AUDIO 12 William Moses p.113
PMB AUDIO 13 Dora Patterson p.120
PMB AUDIO 14-15 Capt. Fred Vollmer p.131
PMB AUDIO 16 Nicky Yoshida (née Ashley) p.146
PMB AUDIO 17 Bertha Wendt p.158
PMB AUDIO 18 Alice Mahabir p.171
PMB AUDIO 19 Sir Len Usher, Parts 1 & 2 p.193
PMB AUDIO 21 “Pa” Hazelman and Noleen Billings p.208
PMB AUDIO 22 Thomas Fenton p.220
PMB AUDIO 23 Jess Jackson p.227
PMB AUDIO 24 Betty Simpson p.241
PMB AUDIO 25 Lema Low p.250
PMB AUDIO 26-27 Rodney Acraman, Interview No.1 p.265
PMB AUDIO 26-27 Rodney Acraman, Interview No.2 p.288
PMB AUDIO 29 Judy Zundel p.298
PMB AUDIO 30 Daryl Tarte p.316
PMB AUDIO 31 Sir David Ragg, Parts 1 & 2 p.334
PMB AUDIO 33 Don Burness p.355
PMB AUDIO 34-35 Bill Clark, Parts 1 & 2 p.372

Mackinnon, Marsali

Papers and publications on rural development, economics and labour in Papua New Guinea

  • AU PMB MS 1237
  • Collection
  • 1947-1992

Professor R.T. Shand is a distinguished academic whose more recent research focuses on agricultural development in South Asia. He was based in the Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, from 1961 until 1999. His early interest in agricultural economics in Papua New Guinea, in particular cash crop development, is documented in these papers. Professor Shand directed a 3-year study of the development of cash-cropping in PNG for the Reserve Bank of Australia, 1963-65. In 1967 68 he was a member of a committee advising on the first Five Year Plan for the economic development of PNG. In 1970 he was a member of a Board of Inquiry into Rural Minimum Wages in PNG. He has also been a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on matters relating to PNG and was a member of its 1975 Mission to PNG.

Unpublished papers on rural development, economics and labour in Papua New Guinea. The papers include reports on agricultural economics and cash crops by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation (CSIRO), 1947-48; reports on PNG economics and development by Raymond Firth, J.W. Davidson, O.K.H. Spate, C.S. Belshaw and T.W. Swan, 1951-53; J.G. Crawford’s file on ANU projects in PNG, 1959; various government, bank and international organisations’ reports, 1947-1991; report and transcript of a Board of Inquiry into Rural Minimum Wages in PNG, 1970.
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

Shand, R.T. (1934- )

Land Court: Minutes

  • AU PMB MS 1239
  • Collection
  • 1917-2003

The land tenure system in Niue, as laid down under the Niue Act 1966 (formerly the Cook Islands Act 1915), was taken directly from legislation affecting Maori land in New Zealand. The Niue Land Court was directed to investigate the titles to customary land according to Niuean custom and usage, and at the same time it was directed that all titles issued must be freehold titles. Polynesian customary land tenure was diametrically opposed to freehold tenure and the two could not mix. (From J.M. McEwen, Report on Land Tenure in Niue, Wellington, Govt. Printer, 1968; p.7.)

Originally constituted as the Native Land Court, the Land Court is now (2004) a Division of the High Court of Niue. Appeals from a decision of the High Court are heard by the Niue Court of Appeal.

The Niue Justice Department archives were damaged by sea surges associated with Cyclone Heta in January 2004. Many of the Land Court Minute Books were saturated which washed away water-soluable ink and in some cases led to mould damage.

Land Court Minute Books, Volumes 1-12, Aug 1941-Dec 2003, indexed, some volumes badly water damaged; together with: Minutes of Adoption Cases, 1917-1932, Minutes of Adoption Orders, 1917-1924; and Niue High Court, Land Division, Appeals Minute Book, May-Nov 1992. <b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

Government of Niue, Justice, Lands and Survey Department

Isles of disenchantment: the Fletcher / Jacomb Correspondence: Letters exchanged between R.J. Fletcher and Edward Jacomb.

  • AU PMB MS 1243
  • Collection
  • 1913-1921

The late W.E. Stober, formerly with the British Residency in Port Vila and District Agent on Santo and Tanna, prepared a book-length collection of the correspondence between R.J. Fletcher and Edward Jacomb, culled from the condensed version of Edward Jacomb’s diary entitled, ‘Successful Failure’, held at the Library of the University of London. (which also holds Jacomb’s complete diary under restricted access.) Will Stober points out that the Fletcher-Jacomb correspondence provides a counterpoint to the Fletcher’s letters to J.G. Bohun Lynch published in <i>Isles of Illusion: letters from the South Seas</i> (Constable 1923). In 2004 the <i>Journal of Pacific History</i> published a version of Stober’s introduction to the letters, edited by Deryck Scarr, together with a selection of the letters ('Isles of Illusion: letters from Asterisk to Mowbray', <i>JPH</i>, 39:3; 353-373).

<i>Isles of Disenchantment: The Fletcher / Jacomb Correspondence (letters exchanged between R.J. Fletcher and Edward Jacomb, 1913-1921,</i> edited, with an introduction by W.E. Stober , Ts., 307pp.

Stober, W.E. (Ed.)

Correspondence with resident agents in the outer islands

  • AU PMB MS 1248
  • Collection
  • 1896-1970

The Cook Islands were annexed to New Zealand in June 1901. Resident Agents, responsible to the Resident Commissioner in Rarotonga, were appointed in each of the islands in the Cook Islands group. Resident Agents chaired the Island Council meetings. The Resident Agent also had judicial powers under island ordinances, heard criminal matters cases, except murder and manslaughter, and civil cases, except divorce suits, where the consideration was no more than 50 pounds.

Reels 1-4: 17/1 Atiu - general, 1893-1966; Atiu – Public Works, 1909-14; Atiu – annual reports, 1913-14;
Reels 4-7: 18/1 Mauke – general, 1909-1968; Mauke – annual reports, 1950-59;
Reels 7- 11: 19/1 Mangaia – general, 1899-1967; Mangaia – annual reports, 1950-58;
Reel 11-12: Atiu – annual reports, 1950-65; Aitutaki – annual reports, 1950-65;
Reel 12-14: 20/1 Penrhyn – general, 1909-1974;
Reel 14: 20/1 Northern Group – weekly diaries, 1968-1969;
Reel 14: Penrhyn – annual report, 1950-52;
Reel 15: 17/1 Atiu – general, 1893-1913 (papers removed for conservation);
Reel 15-17: 1/21 Manahiki and Rakananga – general, 1909-1958; Manahiki and Rakahanga – annual report, 1950-62.
<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>
See also: PMB 1192: COOK ISLANDS ADMINISTRATION, Resident Commissioner’s Office: Correspondence with Aitutaki Resident Agents, 1908-1967. Reels 1-5. (Restricted access.)

Cook Islands Administration, Resident Commissioners Office

Fiji Planters Journal

  • AU PMB DOC 455
  • Collection
  • 1913 – 1917

<i>The Fiji Planters’ Journal</i> was published for the Fiji Planters’ Association. The President of the Association was L.J. Hunt; the Secretary and editor of the <i>Journal</i> was H.H. Thiele. The Association had five branches in 1916: Southern Districts Branch, Ba Branch, Labasa Branch, Nadi Branch and Savu Savu Branch. Minutes of regular (monthly) meetings and of executive committee meetings of the Association are recorded in the <i>Journal</i>. It reports in 1917 that a move had been made by the Ba and Labasa Branches to stop publication of the <i>Journal</i> on the grounds that it did not include enough local material. It was noted that apart from members’ subscriptions the <i>Journal</i> received ₤147 in advertising revenue, plus a subsidy of ₤50 each fropm CSR and the Government. The Planters’ Council agreed to continue publication however advertising fell away and, in the last issue it is reported that some Branches of the Association had seceded from the Association over differences of opinion with the executive committee.

The microfilm is made from the set at the Alport Barker Library at the National Archives of Fiji which is comprised of some originals together with photocopies supplied by the Mt. Albert Research Centre, Auckland. Some of the photocopies are poor quality.

Reel 1. Vol.1, Nos.1-12, Jul 1913-Jun 1914; Vol.2, Nos.13-24, Jul 1914-Jun 1915;

Reel 2. Vol.3, Nos.26-36, Aug 1915-June 1916; Vol.4, Nos.37-42, 44-45, 47-48, Jul 1916-Jun 1917.

<b>See Finding aids for details.</b>

Planters' Association of Fiji

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