Indigenous individuals who labored slavishly for little or no pay throughout a shameful period in WA’s historical past are a part of a category motion searching for to get well their stolen wages from the State Authorities, with an out-of-court settlement doable as mediation continues later this month.
Shine Attorneys is representing as much as 14,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals — together with youngsters — who labored in WA between December 1936 and June 1972 on farms, cattle stations and in merciless establishments the place the children had been taken after being forcibly faraway from their households, usually wrongly dubbed “orphans”.
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