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Human Rights Commission receives formal complaint as class action looms over alleged abuse of children in WA youth detention
Key points: - A Representative Complaint has been filed with the Australian Huma...
Giovanni Torre 27 May 2026
Stolen Wages struggle captured in National Portrait Prize finalist
A young girl, Amazine, sits beside her father, Amaziah Club, during a men's cere...
Natasha Clark 22 Dec 2025
'Conditions remain dangerous, degrading, and completely unacceptable' - tensions erupt at notorious WA children's prison
Young people held in Western Australia's notorious Banksia Hill Detention Centre...
Giovanni Torre 24 Nov 2025
‘Discriminatory and unjust’: Commonwealth sued over claims Work for the Dole harmed Indigenous communities
A Federal Court class action has been launched against the Commonwealth, allegin...
Dechlan Brennan 30 Sep 2025
State sued over 28 years of racism claim
Queensland Health have been hit with a class action over allegations of racial d...
Emma Kirk 21 May 2025
Strip search class action against NSW police set to begin

A class action over the lawfulness of strip searches carried out by NSW Police at music festivals will begin next week. The legal case, to be presided over by Justice Dina Yehia, will challenge the le...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 2, 2025
“I doubt they would see much social justice in this outcome": Judge critical of law firm in stolen wages class action

A federal court judge has criticised a law firm for adopting a process with an "excessive level of human resources" in a stolen wages class action for Indigenous workers in the Northern Territory.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Apr 21, 2025
'Trailblazer' Nicky Winmar may co-lead AFL racism case

AFL great Nicky Winmar has asked to "courageously" co-lead a landmark racism class action against the league brought by Indigenous players, lawyers say.

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Emily Woods Mar 3, 2025
$144 million granted to Aboriginal families following stolen wages class action

Eligible Aboriginal workers and their families whose wages were stolen under racist government policies throughout much of the 20th century will receive share $144,375,000 in compensation.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 27, 2024
Indigenous child removals class action lodged in NSW and WA

First Nations people who allege they have experienced unlawful racial discrimination at the hands of the Department of Communities in Western Australia and the Department of Communities and Justice in...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 20, 2024
Federal Court approves $180 million settlement for WA Stolen Wages case

The Federal Court this week approved the WA government's settlement payment of $180 million to thousands of eligible Aboriginal workers whose wages were stolen under racist government policies through...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Oct 31, 2024
New data reveals NSW Police average more than a 100 strip searches at train stations per year

New South Wales Police have strip searched nearly 900 people at train stations since 2016, many of them children, according to information obtained by the Redfern Legal Centre.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Oct 22, 2024
History made as federal government settles in NT Stolen Wages case

The federal government has settled the class action for Stolen Wages on behalf of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who worked in the Northern Territory and were paid lit...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 6, 2024
Slater and Gordon file WA class action for thousands of Aboriginal tenants in substandard public housing

Thousands of First Nations tenants living in substandard public housing in remote Western Australia have joined a class action led by one of the country's most prominent law firms.

WA Stolen Wages Class Action registration deadline extended

The Federal Court of Australia has made orders extending the deadline for group members to register for the Western Australian Stolen Wages class action to 30 September 2024.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jun 21, 2024
Supreme Court sets date for strip search class action against NSW police

The New South Wales Supreme Court has set a date for the strip search class action, which will challenge the legality of NSW Police strip searching children at music festivals over a six-year period.

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan May 18, 2024
Indigenous people impacted by Stolen Wages in WA urged to come forward

The Western Australian government will pay $180.4 million to settle a three-year class action dispute over wages stolen from thousands of Aboriginal people working in the state from the 1930s to 1970s...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 15, 2024
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