Rachel Warcon is a mix of third and fourth generation Australian South Sea Islander and says she finds it astonishing most Australians are unaware of “the basics” of this country’s blackbirding history. In the blackbirding era between the 1860s and the early 1900s, her great-grandfather Charles Malamoo and great-great-grandfather William Warcon were taken from their homes in … Continue reading Blackbirding history should be taught in schools, Rachel says, if you want to get across ‘the basics’