Stolen Wages - a campaign for justice

Support Aboriginal workers' fight for justice

From 1897 to until the early 1970s employment, wages and savings of Aboriginal workers were controlled by successive Australian governments under compulsory labour contracts. In Queensland wages were held by the government 'in trust'. These workers have since made a claim for their wages but they have only been offered a fraction of what they are really owed. In 2002 the Queensland Government announced a 'take it or leave it' deal to pay a small percentage of the missing, unpaid and underpaid wages to the remaining living workers (not for the families of those who died before May last year) to settle their claim.

What could be up to $500m in workers pay is being settled with a $55.6m offer.

Support these workers. Support their claim for all their stolen wages.

For further information on this issue and campaign, including about what you can do to help, visit the QCU website or the ANTaR website.