Stolen Wages
Transcript of Stolen Wages
STOLEN WAGES
Outline
• Definition • Causes• Aboriginal slaves• Repayment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQMT0jiLsM
What does the video clip tell us?
• Aboriginal People were paid only 31% of White wages.
• They received only 20% of their own wage.
STOLEN WAGES?When?
From the late 1800s until the 1970s
What happened?
-Enslavement of Aboriginal workers -Denial of access to their wages (corrupt officials and employers stole their wages in many cases) A CYCLE OF POVERTY
-general reluctance to pay the monies withheld of governments and churches
Aboriginal Workers Employer Governmen
tPocket Money
Administered Money
Gary HighlandNational Director of
ANTaR
Rachael SiewertGreen Senator of
WA
Views about Stolen Wages
Aboriginal Workers
Repaying Stolen Wages….?
Stolen Wages Repayment Scheme in Queensland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRdspayj04
$2,000 to $4,000 for a lifetime of work
(2002)
Set aside $55.4 from Indigenous Wages
and Savings Reparations Scheme
(2002)Draw more than $15
from Qld Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Foundation(2008)
Conclusion
• Many Aboriginal workers couldn’t receive the wages.
• Many Aboriginal women worked like a slave labour.
• Governments have tried to pay back wages of Aboriginal workers.
• But it is not easy to collect records.• Aboriginal people claim low success of
repayment.
Discussion Questions
• Do you agree with the amount of repayment that Queensland government decided? ($2000-$4000)
• How do you think the reasons that other states and territory (South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Northern Territory) do not set up repayment scheme?
Reference• gonkybonks 2007, Justice?, video recording, YouTube http
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oQMT0jiLsM• History of Indigenous wages: Queensland Government
2012, viewed 18 September 2013, <http://www.qld.gov.au/atsi/cultural-awareness-heritage-arts/history-indigenous-wages/>
• Korff, J, creative spirits, viewed 11 September 2013, http://www.creativespirits.info/index.php
• Queensland Stolen Wages Fact Sheet, viewed 17 September 2013, http://www.reconciliation.qut.edu.au/issues/recweek/StolenWagesFactSheet.pdf
• World News Australia 2013, Stolen wages issue heats up, video recording, YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuRdspayj04