Book Launch – Queensland’s Sugar King: The Zammit Legacy by Catherine Smith
Catherine Smith will be launching her new book, Queensland’s Sugar King: The Zammit Legacy, the story of Maltese immigrant Paul Zammit and his wife Pauline, pioneers in North Queensland’s sugar industry.
7.00pm
• Maltese National Anthem Australian National Anthem
• The Unknown Beyond the Far Horizon Talk by Frank Zammit
• The Centenary Song
• Keynote Speaker – Dolores Dunbar 7.30pm Musical Interlude – Eddie Busuttil
• The Zammit Legacy – Author Catherine Smith
• Instrumental – Romanza (Anonymous)
• Launch of book by Paul Zammit OAM
• Maltese National Anthem Australian National Anthem
• The Unknown Beyond the Far Horizon Talk by Frank Zammit
• The Centenary Song
• Keynote Speaker – Dolores Dunbar 7.30pm Musical Interlude – Eddie Busuttil
• The Zammit Legacy – Author Catherine Smith
• Instrumental – Romanza (Anonymous)
• Launch of book by Paul Zammit OAM
8.00pm
End of Programme Refreshments and book signing
Master of Ceremonies – Mark Caruana OAM
End of Programme Refreshments and book signing
Master of Ceremonies – Mark Caruana OAM
In this extraordinary rags to riches story, an illiterate and impoverished Maltese immigrant rises from destitution to become Queensland’s ‘Sugar King’. A citizen of the British Empire, Paul Zammit arrives in Australia (1912) and is caught in the crossfire of racial and political hostilities, where his Arabic-sounding dialect and swarthy complexion clash with immigration law designed to keep Australia ‘British and white’. Undertaking an epic journey on foot from Sydney, he secures a convincing reign over the sugar industry of North Queensland. As hard-working pioneers of Bartle Frere, he and his Maltese wife Pauline endure crippling privations and discrimination in pursuit of acceptance and the right to belong. Raising ten talented children, the family’s musical concerts benefit welfare, migrants, war-time patriotic clubs, the community and Zammit’s ‘eleventh child’, the Roman Catholic Church. Calamitous setbacks with polio and alleged tax evasion contrast starkly with gold mining, a 10-month world tour, King George VI’s coronation, and the Vatican’s conferral of the first Benemerenti Medal in Queensland. Holding firm to a vision of progress, Paul and Pauline Zammit espouse traditional Maltese values in parallel with fervent loyalty to their new homeland of Australia.
I would like to purchase that book Queensland sugar king . Could you let me know how to do so . Kind regards Rosie
Hi Rosie
I’m sorry we missed your message. If you haven’t yet been able to buy one, you can contact the club on 9622 5847 during Thursday day time or Saturday evening and someone should be able to help you