Notes
1. Pacific Islander is a convenient umbrella term that describes peoples associated with three
broad island regions: Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The largest group of Polynesian
peoples residing in Australia is the Samoan community. We therefore acknowledge the
limitations of terms we use in this paper – Pacific Islander, Polynesian peoples and Samoan
community – in conveying the nature and extent of diversity across and within groups.
2. Voice of Samoan People (Leo o Tagata Samoa) was established in 2008 in response to a fatal
incident in Logan involving nine Samoan-heritage youths and a group of Indigenous
Australian men. An Indigenous man died as a result of the incident.
3. The editor of the monograph series, Eileen Piggot-Irvine gave us permission to use some of
the information for the purpose of this paper and to reproduce Figures 1 and 2.