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Mabo Day reflections centre truth, Indigenous rights at AIATSIS Summit
The AIATSIS Summit on the Gold Coast marked Mabo Day with reflections on truth,...
Foundation welcomes largest intake of Indigenous students in program's history
The Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation (QATSIF) has wel...
Joseph Guenzler 18 Mar 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
Exclusive: "We can't trust the court systems anymore" - Veteran campaigner for WA Stolen Wages justice speaks out
A longtime campaigner for justice for Stolen Wages victims says the hard work of...
Giovanni Torre 4 Aug 2025
"Truly awful thing": Scammer targets WA Stolen Wages settlement
Aboriginal people entitled to WA's Stolen Wages settlement have been warned of a...
Jarred Cross 25 Jul 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
Drama of WA's Kimberley in paintings - and on plates

Renowned stockman and artist Mervyn Street is in his mid-70s and about to open his first institutional gallery exhibition. The show titled Stolen Wages is part of Boorloo Contemporary, a new commissio...

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Liz Hobday Jan 27, 2025
Breaking: Federal Government apologises to Stolen Wages NT group members and surviving relatives

The federal government has apologised to Stolen Wages Northern Territory group members and their surviving relatives in the Senate today. Speaking in the Senate on Wednesday, Minister for Indigenous A...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Nov 27, 2024
$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
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
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
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
Land council seeks legal advice after audit finds 630 employees were underpaid $1.36m

One of Western Australia's biggest Indigenous bodies says it will take time to compensate 630 current and former employees who were underpaid $1.

David Prestipino David Prestipino May 8, 2024
Worker underpayments uncovered at WA land council

Kimberley Land Council has apologised and committed to repaying 630 current and former employees $1.36 million after an internal audit uncovered underpayments.

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William Ton May 6, 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
Aboriginal advocates urge governments to listen to grassroots movement

Wadjuk Noongar Professor Cheryl Kickett-Tucker AM described the crowd that gathered outside of parliament house in Perth on Friday as "small but mighty".

Rhiannon Clarke Rhiannon Clarke Jan 16, 2024
WA parliament apologises for decades of Indigenous worker exploitation

A bipartisan apology to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers for decades of stolen wages in Western Australia has been heard by members and applicants of the historic legal action for recompe...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Nov 28, 2023
WA government to apologise for stolen Indigenous wages

The Western Australian government is set to formally apologise to thousands of Indigenous workers who were paid little or no wages for almost four decades.

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Neve Brissenden Nov 28, 2023
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