Australia Banaba Relations (eBook)

the price of shaping a nation

Stacey M. King (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
38 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-0-6451491-5-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The prosperity of Australia during the past century was provided by the wealth generated from the nation's farmlands.One of the major components of this success depended on the subsided use of super-phosphate fertilisers derived from the rich phosphate rock deposits of a small remote Pacific island. In a period spanning eighty years, Australia was a major shareholder in a joint commercial venture with the governments of the United Kingdom and New Zealand to mine Banaba-Ocean Island. Now only twenty-five years later these historical links seem all but forgotten. The Banabans call on the Australian government to finally address these issues and recognise their major contribution in shaping Australia's history and agricultural industry during the 20th Century.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Australia's early phosphate mining history

2. Australia's role in discovery of Banaba phosphate

3. Australia's role in the early mining of Banaba

4. The effects of mining on the Banabans

5. Banaba under the Nauru Agreement

6. A World at War

7. Banabans forced removal from their homeland

8. Japanese surrender to Australian forces on Banaba

9. Global changes in a post-war world and Australia's acquisition of Christmas Island phosphate deposits

10. Australia and Nauru under a new Trusteeship Agreement

11. The differences between Banaba, Nauru and Christmas Islands under the British Phosphate Commission

12. The legal responsibilities of the British Phosphate Commissioners

13. Final close to phosphate mining

14. Summary

13. Conclusion

References

About the Author

Other Titles By The Author

Appendix 1: Australian Prime Ministers Letter 1927

  

Photographs

1. Albert Ellis arrived on Banaba in 1900. He set up camp at Tabwewa.

2. Albert Ellis, discovered that a rock that had been used as the office doorstop contained over 78 percent phosphate of lime in July 1899.

3. Banaba (Ocean Island) was also under the Nauru Agreement.

4. 232 BPC staff and 823 Chinese labourers were evacuated aboard Le Triomphant to Australia.

5. Banaba (Ocean Island) while under Japanese occupation

6. Japanese surrender to Australian Forces aboard

7. Devastating impact of phosphate mining by 1932.

8. The ongoing destruction of Banaba by phosphate mining by 1968.

9. Australia was the primary recipient of Banaba's phosphate.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.6.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Australian-agriculture • Banaba • Banabans • environmental-disaster • History • Injustice • Kiribati • Mining • ocean-island • Phosphate
• ISBN-10: 0-6451491-5-2 / 0645149152
• ISBN-13: 978-0-6451491-5-9 / 9780645149159