Pacnews is a regional news agency and international wire service headquartered in Suva, Fiji. Pacnews is operated as a service of the Pacific Island News Association (PINA), a regional organization composed of journalists and news organizations in the Pacific Islands region.^[1] Pacnews is sometimes written as PACNEWS.

Pacnews announced that it would no longer cover domestic Fijian news in its stories following a crackdown on the media in Fiji in the aftermath of the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis. ^[2] The announcement followed government demands that Pacnews remove a story about the UN Security Council's condemnation of the abolishment of the Fijian constitution by President Josefa Iloilo on April 10, 2009. ^[2] Fijian government censors also demanded that Pacnews screen all Pacnews bulletins and news feeds concerning Fiji through the government before being sent to subscribers abroad.^[2] Pacnews refused to comply with the Fijian government's censorship demands and instead decided to discontinue all news stories on Fiji.^[2]

On April 15, 2009, Pacnews writer and journalist Pita Ligaiula, who is also a foreign correspondent for the Australian Associated Press, was arrested by two police officers and an official from the Fijian Ministry of Information. Ligaiula' detention was reportedly due to a byline he had written which violated Fiji's emergency restrictions on the media.^[3]

The restrictions on Pacnews have led to calls to leave Fiji due to censorship.^[4] However, the President of PINA, Joseph Ealedona of Papua New Guinea, reiterated that Pacnews has no plans to relocate to another country at this time.^[1] Ealedona said that it was important that Pacnews and PINA remain in Fiji, even under the current government restrictions saying, "I think it is very important that PINA remains there and does not show to the interim regime that we are running away. The media in Fiji needs PINA there. As far as the situation continues like that we will remain there." ^[5]

However, Ealedonia left open the possibility that PINA would consider moving its Pacnews service and its headquarters out of Fiji at its conference in July 2009.^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pacnews
• Pacific Islands News Association

Pacific Islands leaders, all members of the Pacific Islands Forum, at a meeting in Samoa with former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (center), 26 July, 2008

The Pacific Islands comprise 20,000 to 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. The islands are also sometimes collectively called Oceania,^[1] although Oceania is sometimes defined as also including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago.

Three of the major groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The Pacific Islands lying south of the tropic of Cancer are traditionally grouped into the three divisions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia:

• Melanesia means black islands. These include New Guinea (the largest Pacific island, which is divided into the sovereign nation of Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian provinces of Maluku, Papua and West Papua), New Caledonia, Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait Islands), Vanuatu, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.
• Micronesia means small islands. These include the Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, *Nauru, and the Federated States of Micronesia. Most of these lie north of the equator.
• Polynesia means many islands. These include New Zealand, the Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, the Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands, Wallis and Futuna, Tokelau, Niue, French Polynesia, and Easter Island. It is the largest of the three zones.

The region's islands are classified into two groups, high islands and low islands. Volcanoes form high islands, which generally can support more people and have a more fertile soil. Low islands are reefs or atolls, and are relatively small and infertile. Melanesia, the most populous of the three regions, contains mainly high islands, while most of Micronesia and Polynesia are low islands. In addition, there are many other islands located within the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean that are not considered part of Oceania. These islands include the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador; the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, United States; the Russian islands of Sakhalin and Kuril Islands; Taiwan and other islands of the Republic of China; the Philippines; islands in the South China Sea, which includes the disputed South China Sea Islands; most of the islands of Indonesia; and the island nation of Japan, which comprises the Japanese Archipelago.

• Nauru (along with Kiribati's Banaba island) could be counted as somewhat of an exception. The indigenous Nauruans are both a mosaic and mixture of groups from all three categories- with cultural influence stemming primarily from Micronesia. The island was also said to be an extreme point of the "Tongan Empire" and may as a result share subtle cultural and, obviously, historical aspects with Polynesia. Lastly, the people speak a language and have a number of genes not in common with any of the three regions. Of the three, Nauru is least like Polynesia and Melanesia and for practical applications, Nauru is either assigned to Micronesia or designated as a separate entity (with the former being the most common).

List of islands[link]

This is a list of many of the major Pacific islands, organized by archipelago or political unit. In order to keep this list of moderate size, links are given to more complete lists for countries with large numbers of small or uninhabited islands.

Note: many Polynesian languages have a glottal stop, which in most of them is seldom written, however. If a name with a < ʻ > cannot be found, try to rewrite it without it. See 'okina for more info.

• American Samoa (eastern part of the Samoa Islands, United States territory)
  • Aunuʻu
  • Ofu
  • Olosega
  • Rose Atoll
  • Swains Island (Olosenga, Olohega) (disputed)
  • Taʻu
  • Tutuila

• Baker Island (United States)

• British Columbia, Canada (many islands). All of Canada's Pacific islands are located in the province of British Columbia. Vancouver Island is Canada's largest Pacific island.

• Caroline Islands (Federated States of Micronesia; Palau)
  • Federated States of Micronesia
    • Pohnpei
    • Yap
      • Ulithi
    • Chuuk
      • Puluwat
    • Kosrae
  • Palau
    • Babeldaob
    • Ioueldaob
      • Koror
    • Southwest Islands

• Clipperton Island (France)

• Cook Islands
  • Aitutaki
  • Atiu
  • Pamati (Palmerston)
  • Mangaia
  • Manihiki (Humphrey)
  • Manuae (Hervey)
  • Mauke (Parry)
  • Mitiaro
  • Nassau
  • Pukapuka (Danger)
  • Rakahanga (Reirson)
  • Rarotonga
  • Suwarrow (Anchorage)
  • Takutea
  • Tongareva (Penrhyn)

• Desventuradas Islands (Chile)

• Easter Island/Rapa Nui (Chile)

• Fiji Islands
  • Principal islands:
    • Viti Levu
    • Vanua Levu
  • Significant outliers:
    • Conway Reef
    • Kadavu Island
    • Taveuni
    • Rotuma Island
  • Archipelagos:
    • Kadavu Group
    • Lau Islands
    • Lomaiviti Islands
    • Mamanuca Islands
    • Moala Islands
    • Ringgold Isles
    • Rotuma Group
    • Vanua Levu Group
    • Viti Levu Group
    • Yasawa Islands

• French Polynesia ("Tahiti", Autonomous Overseas Territory of France)
  • Austral Islands
    • Tubuai
  • Society Islands
    • Iles du Vent (Windward Islands)
      • Moorea
      • Tahiti
      • Tetiaroa
      • Maiao
      • Mehetia
    • Iles Sous le Vent (Leeward Islands)
      • Bora Bora
      • Huahine
      • Maupiti
      • Raiatea & Tahaa
      • Tupai
      • Mopelia (aka Maupihaa)
      • Manuae (aka Scilly Atoll)
      • Motu One (aka Bellinghausen)
  • Marquesas
    • Fatu Hiva
    • Hiva Oa
    • Nuku Hiva
    • Tahuata
    • Ua Huka
    • Ua Pou
  • Tuamotus
    • Rangiroa
    • Fakarava
    • Moruroa
    • Fangataufa
  • Gambier Islands
    • Mangareva
    • Helena Island
• Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)
• Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)

• Hawaii (United States; see also Hawaiian Islands)
  • Main islands
    • Hawaiʻi
    • Kahoʻolawe
    • Kauaʻi
    • Lanaʻi
    • Maui
    • Molokaʻi
    • Niʻihau
    • Oʻahu
  • Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
    • Kaʻula
    • Nihoa
    • Necker
    • French Frigate Shoals
    • Gardner Pinnacles
    • Maro Reef
    • Laysan
    • Lisianski
    • Pearl and Hermes Reef
    • Midway
    • Kure

• Howland Island (United States)

• Indonesia
• Maluku
• Papua

• Japan an archipelago of 6,852 islands

• Johnston Atoll (United States)

• Juan Fernández Islands (Chile)

• Kermadec Islands (New Zealand)
  • Macauley Island
  • Raoul Island

• Line Islands
  • Caroline Island
  • Flint Island (Kiribati)
  • Jarvis Island (United States)
  • Kingman Reef (United States)
  • Kiritimati/Christmas Island (Kiribati)
  • Malden Island (Kiribati)
  • Palmyra Atoll (United States)
  • Starbuck Island (Kiribati)
  • Tabuaeran/Fanning Island (Kiribati)
  • Teraina/Washington Island (Kiribati)
  • Tongareva/Penhryn Island (Cook Islands)
  • Vostok Island (Kiribati)

• Lord Howe Island (Australia)

• Marcus Island (Japan)

• Marianas Islands (United States)
  • Guam
  • Northern Marianas Islands
    • Saipan
    • Rota
    • Tinian
    • Maug
    • Pagan Island
    • Alamagan
    • Farallon de Pajaros

• Marshall Islands
  • Bikini
  • Enewetak
  • Kwajalein
  • Rongelap
  • Majuro

• Norfolk Island (Australia)

• Federated States of Micronesia (Caroline Islands)
  • Chuuk (Truk)
    • Puluwat
  • Pohnpei
  • Kosrae
  • Yap
    • Ulithi

• Nauru

• New Caledonia ("Kanaky", France)
  • Chesterfield Islands
  • Ilots du Mouillage
  • New Caledonia
    • Isle of Pines
    • Belep Islands
    • New Caledonia
  • Loyalty Islands
    • Bagao
    • Lifou Island
    • Maré Island
    • Ouvéa Island
    • Tiga Island

• New Zealand ("Aotearoa", see also Islands of New Zealand)
  • Chatham Islands
    • Chatham Island
    • Pitt Island
  • D'Urville Island
  • Great Barrier Island
  • Kapiti Island
  • North Island
  • South Island
  • Stewart Island/Rakiura
  • Waiheke Island

• Niue (Savage Island)

• Okinotori Islands (Japan)

• Papua New Guinea
  • Bismarck Archipelago
    • Admiralty Islands
    • New Britain
    • New Ireland
    • Saint Matthias Group
  • Bougainville
  • D'Entrecasteaux Islands
  • Louisiade Archipelago
  • Trobriand Islands

• Phoenix Islands (Kiribati)

• Pitcairn Islands (UK)
  • Henderson Island
  • Oeno Island
  • Ducie Island

• Revillagigedo Islands (Mexico)

• Sakhalin (Russia)

• Samoa (western part of the Samoa Islands)
  • Savaiʻi
  • ʻUpolu
  • Apolima
  • Manono
  • Nuutele

• Solomon Islands (see also Islands of the Solomon Islands)
  • Bellona
  • Choiseul
  • Florida Island
  • Guadalcanal
  • Malaita
  • Maramasike
  • New Georgia Islands
  • Rennell
  • Russell Islands
  • San Cristobal
  • Santa Cruz Islands
  • Santa Isabel
  • Shortland Islands
  • Sikaiana (Stewart Islands)
  • Tulagi
  • Ulawa
  • Uki

• Tokelau
  • Atafu (Duke of York Island)
  • Fakaofo (Bowditch Island)
  • Nukunonu (Duke of Clarence Island)
  • Olohega (Swains island) (disputed)

• Tonga (only main islands or groups, on north-south order. See also complete list of islands in Tonga)
  • Niuafoʻou
  • Niuatoputapu (Keppel's Island)
  • Vavaʻu
  • Kao
  • Tofua
  • Haʻapai
  • Tongatapu
  • ʻEua

• Torres Strait Islands (Australia)

• Tuvalu (see also Islands of Tuvalu)
  • Funafuti (atoll of at least 30 islands)
  • Nanumanga (or Nanumaga)
  • Nanumea (atoll of at least 6 islands)
  • Niulakita
  • Niutao
  • Nui (atoll of at least 21 islands)
  • Nukufetau (atoll of at least 33 islands)
  • Nukulaelae (atoll of at least 15 islands)
  • Vaitupu (atoll of at least 9 islands)

• Vanuatu (New Hebrides; see also Islands of Vanuatu)
  • Ambrym
  • Anatom
  • Aoba
  • Éfaté
  • Erromango
  • Espiritu Santo
  • Futuna
  • Hunter (claimed by France and Vanuatu)
  • Îles Banks
  • Îles Torres
  • Maéwo
  • Matthew (claimed by France and Vanuatu)
  • Malakula
  • Pentecóte
  • Tanna

• Wake Island (United States)

• Wallis and Futuna (France)
  • Alofi
  • Futuna
  • Wallis (ʻUvea)

• Willis Island (Australia)

See also[link]

• List of islands (islands around the world)

Pacific islands by continent[link]

Antarctica[link]

• List of islands of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Asia[link]

• List of islands of Asia

Central America[link]

• List of islands of Central America

North America[link]

• List of islands of North America
• List of islands of Canada, section British Columbia
• List of islands of Mexico
• List of islands of the United States

Oceania[link]

• List of islands of Australia
• List of islands of Kiribati
• List of islands of the Marshall Islands
• List of islands of New Zealand
• List of islands of the Solomon Islands
• List of islands in Tonga
• List of islands of Tuvalu
• List of islands of Vanuatu

European islands in Oceania[link]

• List of islands administered by France in the Indian and Pacific oceans#Pacific Islands
• Pitcairn Islands#Geography

U.S. islands in Oceania[link]

• List of islands of Hawaii
• List of islands of the United States#Insular areas

South America[link]

• List of islands of South America
• List of islands of Chile
• List of islands of Colombia
• List of islands of Ecuador
• List of islands of Peru

Islands of adjacent oceans[link]

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
• List of islands in the Arctic Ocean
• List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean
• List of islands in the Indian Ocean

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

• William Collins Sons & Co Ltd (1983), Collins Atlas of the World (revised 1995 ed.), London W6 8JB: HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-448227-1 

v t e Countries and territories of Oceania Sovereign states Australia Chile Easter Island Juan Fernández Islands East Timor (Timor-Leste) Fiji Indonesia Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Japan Bonin Islands Nauru New Zealand Cook Islands Niue Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu United States Hawaii Palmyra Atoll Vanuatu Dependencies and other territories Australia Ashmore and Cartier Islands Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Coral Sea Islands Territory Norfolk Island France Clipperton Island French Polynesia New Caledonia Wallis and Futuna New Zealand Cook Islands Niue Tokelau United Kingdom Pitcairn Islands United States American Samoa Baker Island Guam Howland Island Jarvis Island Johnston Atoll Kingman Reef Midway Atoll Northern Mariana Islands Wake Island

The three major sub-regions of Oceania

Pacific Islander (or Pacific person; pl: Pacific people; also Oceanic person/people(s)^[1] or Oceanians), is a geographic phrase to describe the indigenous inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.^[2][3]

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these three regions, together with their islands, consist of:

Polynesia: The islands scattered across a tangle covering the east-central region of the Pacific Ocean. The triangle is bounded by the Hawaiian islands in the north, New Zealand in the west, and Easter Island in the east. The rest of Polynesia comprises Samoan islands (American Samoa and Samoa), the Cook Islands, French Polynesia (Tahiti and The Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, Austral Islands, and the Tuamotu Archipelago), Niue Island, Tokelau and Tuvalu, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, and Pitcairn Island.

Melanesia: The island of New Guinea, the Bismarck and Louisiade archipelagos, the Admiralty Islands, and Bougainville Island (which make up the independent state of Maluku, Papua New Guinea), the Solomon Islands, the Santa Cruz Islands (part of the Solomon Islands), New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), Fiji, Norfolk Island, and various smaller islands.

Micronesia: The islands of Kiribati, Nauru, the Marianas (Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands), the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae, all in the Caroline Islands).

Ethnolinguistically, those Pacific Islanders who reside in Oceania are divided into two different ethnic classifications — those Austronesian peoples who speak the Oceanian languages, numbering about 2.3 million, who occupy Polynesia, Micronesia, and most of the smaller islands of Melanesia; and the Papuan peoples, those who speak the Papuan languages, who number about 7 million, and reside on the island of New Guinea and a few of the smaller islands of Melanesia located off the northeast coast of New Guinea.

Usage of phrase in Australia, New Zealand and United States[link]

In Australia the term South Sea Islander was used in the past to describe Australian descendants of people from the more than 80 islands in the Western Pacific that used to have sex with all of the males who used to visit the Western Pacific. Which they were recognized as the fist Pacific Islander prostitutes. ^[4] In 1901 legislation was enacted to restrict entry of Pacific Islanders to Australia and to facilitate their deportation: Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901. In the legislation Pacific Islanders were defined as:

“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.^[5]

In 2008 a newly announced Pacific Islander guestworker scheme provides visas for workers from Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea to work in Australia.^[6] 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.^[7][8]

Local usage in New Zealand uses the term 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 many centuries earlier), and from other ethnic groups. A stated reason for making the ethnic distinction is that the Pacific peoples suffer from socio-economic disadvantages as a group and benefit from culturally targeted social and health assistance.

In the United States, the geographic location of "Pacific Islander" is the same. Pacific Islanders are defined as a native or inhabitant of any of the Polynesian, Micronesian, or Melanesian islands of Oceania. Some examples of the ethnic groups that would be considered Pacific Islanders are the indigenous peoples of Hawaii, the Marianas, Samoans, Guamanian, Chamoru, Tahitians, Mariana Islander, and Chuukese.^[9][10]

It is unclear whether a Papuan person from New Guinea would be regarded as a "Pacific Islander" in the United States but the issue has not arisen since very few Papuans have migrated out of New Guinea to North America.

Excluded[link]

Inhabitants of the following islands and regions are not considered to be Pacific Islanders: Russia's Kuril Islands, Alaska's Aleutian Islands, Taiwan, Japan, The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia as they are not located within the three regions of Oceania (Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia).^[11][12]

List of Pacific peoples[link]

This section requires expansion.

• Austronesian-speaking peoples
  • Polynesians
    • Western Polynesian-Melanesian region
    • Samoans
    • Fijians Lauan Group
    • Rotumans
    • Uveans
    • Futunans
    • Tongans
    • Tuvaluans
    • Niueans

• • • Northeast & South Polynesian region
    • Hawaiians
    • Māori
    • Tahitians
    • Tuamotuans
    • Tubuai
      • Rapans
    • Marquesans
    • Gambier Islanders
    • Cook Islanders
      • Rarotongans
    • Rapanui

• • Melanesians
    • Ni-Vanuatu
    • Fijians
  • Micronesians
    • Carolinians
    • Chamorros

• Papuans

See also[link]

• Indigenous peoples of Oceania
• Indigenous Australians
• Australian Aborigines
• Tasmanian Aborigines
• Blackbirding
• Thomas, Nicholas, Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire, Yale University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-12438-5

References[link]

External links[link]

• Asian Pacific Americans in the U.S. Army

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The Welcome Mat was a four-piece Australian indie rock group which formed in Sydney in 1989, and broke up in January, 1997. Throughout the early-to-mid-1990s, their songs "Last of the Great Letdowns", "Cake", "Landspeed", "10,000 People", "Hell Hoping", "Play Me" and "Hey! Illusion" topped the Australian alternative charts, with the videos receiving play on Rage and MTV Australia. The first band ever to play Australia’s Big Day Out festival, The Welcome Mat toured extensively around Australia with the likes of the Hoodoo Gurus, Died Pretty, Buffalo Tom, The Lemonheads, The Wonder Stuff, You Am I, Smudge and Bob Dylan. ^[1]

Biography[link]

The Welcome Mat was formed in Sydney, Australia in 1989 by songwriters Wayne Connolly and Cory Messenger, who had played together in John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong in the late 1980s. Drummer Peter Bennett and bassist David Moss worked with Connolly at Fairlight digital audio company, and were asked to help work on songs demoed on a Tascam four-track recorder. The guitar-based songs were heavily influenced by New Zealand's Flying Nun Records label, as well as US Indie rock performers R.E.M., Husker Dü, the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, The Lemonheads, Buffalo Tom, and UK bands The Smiths, The Stone Roses and The Wonderstuff.

Inspired by the unexpected commercial success of their friends The Hummingbirds, Connolly and Messenger approached local promoter Steve Pavlovic, who booked the band's live debut, a mid-week gig at the Landsdowne Hotel in inner-city Chippendale in January 1990. The name The Welcome Mat was chosen at the last minute by Connolly, in the belief that it was reminiscent of the name of another musical influence, The Wedding Present.

In 1990 Waterfront Records founder Chris Dunn agreed to distribute a vinyl 7-inch single, "Last of the Great Letdowns", recorded at Sunshine 16-track recording studios in Surrey Hills in May 1990. The record appeared on the band's own Plenny O'Hooks label in late 1990. It garnered a small amount of airplay on local community radio stations such as Sydney's 2SER, Melbourne's 3RRR and 3PBS, and Brisbane's 4ZzZ, allowing the band to tour the East Coast of Australia.

In 1991 The Welcome Mat released their second single, "Cake", and the E.P. Fairydust (a reference to the "Troggs Tapes"), which featured "10,000 People". Both "Cake" and "10,000 People" received airplay on the newly-national triple j radio network, boosting the band's audience significantly. Around that time, Moss left the group and was replaced by ex-Benedicts member Leo Mullens, adding another songwriter to the line-up.

After appearing as the opening act at the first Big Day Out, the band was signed to Martin Fabinyi's Regular Records in 1992. They released the E.P. Spare and recording their debut album, Gram, at Paradise Studios in Darlinghurst, Sydney, with US production team Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie (Dinosaur Jr., Hole, Radiohead, Warren Zevon, Sebadoh). National tours with Hunters and Collectors and Buffalo Tom followed in late 1992. During that year the band also appeared at Brisbane's Livid Festival.

Although most of their previous singles and E.P.s had topped the ARIA Australian alternative charts, Gram and its singles "Hell Hoping" and "Play Me" failed to achieve mainstream commercial success. The band left Regular Records in 1994, releasing a single, "All or Nothing More," and the self-funded Headset E.P. on Melbourne independent label Summershine. Signing to id/Mercury in 1996, they released a second album, Lap of Honour, produced by Brad Shepherd of the Hoodoo Gurus. Drummer Peter Bennett left the group before the "Lap of Honour" release, Autohaze drummer Andrew Nunns filled in for some future shows.

After Lap of Honour and its singles "Hey! Illusion" and "Can't Wait to Remind You" failed to chart, and following many months of record company difficulties, management problems and band in-fighting, The Welcome Mat played their final show at the Annandale Hotel in Sydney in 1997. Connolly has since played with Knievel, Mullens with 2 Litre Dolby and The Small Knives, and Messenger with Auto Circus Cop.

Discography[link]

LPs

• Gram (Regular/Festival, 1993)
• Lap Of Honour (id/Mercury, 1996)

EPs

• Fairydust (Plenny O'Hooks, 1991)
• Spare (Regular/Festival, 1992)
• Headset (Summershine, 1994)

Singles

• "Last of the Great Letdowns" (Plenny O'Hooks/Waterfront, 1990)
• "Cake"/"Coming to the Worst" (Plenny O'Hooks/MDS, 1991)
• "Hell Hoping" (Regular/Festival, 1993)
• "Play Me" (Regular/Festival, 1993)
• "All or Nothing More" (Summershine, 1994)
• "Hey! Illusion" (id/Mercury, 1996)
• "Can't Wait to Remind You" (id/Mercury, 1996)

Notes[link]

1. ^ McFarlane, Ian (2000). The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2

References[link]

• McFarlane, Ian (2000). The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-768-2
• Spencer, Chris (1996). Who's Who of Australian Rock . Five Mile Press. ISBN 1-86503-891-1

External links[link]

• Swift, Brendan. Biography of the Welcome Mat at Allmusic
• Australian Music Online entry
• Stu Kahn’s Wellies site