Aboriginal Stolen Wages

Thousands of Aboriginal people had their wages stolen by the Commonwealth in QLD. We caught up with elder Aunty Dawn Daylight for her story of forced removal and indentured labour and Dr. Ros Kidd for some background on the issue.

An episode of the Stick Together podcast, hosted by Aunty Dawn Daylight and Dr. Ros Kidd, titled "Aboriginal Stolen Wages" was published on November 11, 2014.

November 11, 2014 · Stick Together

Summary

This week Stick Together comes to you live from the Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy in Musgrave Park, Brisbane. We're bringing you coverage from Decolonisation before profit, a week of resistance and protest against the capitalist powers meeting for the G20. We heard from Aunty Dawn Daylight about the theft of her wages as an aboriginal child removed from her family and indentured into domestic labour. And we spoke with Dr. Ros Kidd, a researcher whose work has uncovered much oif the documentation being used by thousands of QLD elders to demand decades of wages from the government.Stick Together is produced in the studios of 3CR Community Radio in Melbourne and broadcast on the Community Radio Network. This week we broadcast from Jaggera land and to lands stolen from Aboriginal people all over the country.

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