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| home | news lQld Govt urged to back pay underpaid Aboriginal workers23 November 2006 - The north Queensland arm of the Stolen Wages Working Group says the State Government has no choice but to back-pay hundreds of underpaid Indigenous workers. The Federal Court has ruled the State Government discriminated against a group of Aboriginal workers during the 1970s and 1980s in far north Queensland, paying them under award wages. It appears to leave the Government liable for a massive payment. Lilian Willis Senior says the acknowledgment of past injustices is a real coup for Indigenous Queenslanders. Source ABC
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