<P> In Australia the term South Sea Islander was used to describe Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the western Pacific who had been brought to Australia to work on the sugar fields of Queensland, in the 19th century called Kanakas . The Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901 was enacted to restrict entry of Pacific Islanders to Australia and to authorise their deportation . In the legislation Pacific Islanders were defined as: </P> <P> "Pacific Island Labourer" includes all natives not of European extraction of any island except the islands of New Zealand situated in the Pacific Ocean beyond the Commonwealth (of Australia) as constituted at the commencement of this Act . </P> <P> In 2008 a Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme was announced as a three - year pilot scheme . The scheme provides visas for workers from Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea to work in Australia . The pilot scheme includes one country each from Melanesia (Vanuatu), Polynesia (Tonga) and Micronesia (Kiribati), countries which already send workers to New Zealand under its seasonal labour scheme . Australia's pilot scheme also includes Papua New Guinea . </P> <P> Local usage in New Zealand uses "Pacific islander" (or Pasifika) to distinguish those who have emigrated from one of these areas in modern times from the indigenous New Zealand Māori, who are also Polynesian but arrived in New Zealand centuries earlier . </P>

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