The wizard wind carries lonesome melodies echoing memories of the past hundred years – of schooners, luggers, pearl shells, and waves of settlers called Manilamen, washed ashore in the Torres Strait and Broome. “Manilamen: The Outsiders Within” – poem by Deborah Ruiz Wall When I wrote the Filipino Chapter for the Australian People’s Encyclopedia in … Continue reading 75 years of Fil-Auship: A Snapshot of Filipino migration to Australia