Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "Indigenous leader changes view on Voice referendum" video.

@buildmotosykletist1987 certain indigenous individuals still alive today who had their wages garnered by the Queensland state government explicitly because they were aboriginal.
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@buildmotosykletist1987 You dimwit it is common public knowledge In September 2016, the Stolen Wages Class Action was commenced in the Federal Court of Australia by Hans Pearson against the State of Queensland for work undertaken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Queensland. The proceedings claimed that the Queensland “Protection Acts” in force between 1939 and 1972 required the wages of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers to be paid to the protector or superintendent of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander district, reserve, settlement or mission. Mr Pearson claimed the wages were paid to the protector or superintendent on “trust”, or subject to a fiduciary duty to act with care and control of the money received. It was claimed the Queensland Government breached its duties as trustee, or its duties as a fiduciary, by failing to repay that money to the workers. The Queensland Government agreed in 2019 to settle the Stolen Wages Class Action for $190 million.
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Many Aboriginal people who worked for white people did not receive their wages directly. Their bosses only gave them 'pocket money' while from 1897 to the late 1970s their wages were 'administered' for them by government or police authorities [4]. In Western Australia wages were under "total government control" until 1968 [5]. The contribution Aboriginal people made to Australia's economy with their largely unfairly paid or unpaid work is a history seldom told. "Aboriginal people are often denigrated as being a drain on the nation's economy, but if you look at the facts it's actually the other way around, with Aboriginal labour being used to build the economy without due payment or even recognition," says Dennis Eggington, Chief Executive of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia [5]. "It's a terrible injustice that has been perpetrated over many decades, with the truth hidden from the official version of Australian history." There is no doubt in my mind that this country's strong economy was born on the backs of Aboriginal labour. — Rachael Sievert, WA Green Senator [6] When I was in school, I was told that Australia developed on the sheep's back. I now know that it developed on the backs of thousands of Aboriginal men, women and children. — Gary Highland, National Director, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) [7] Between 1916 and 1960 money of Aboriginal workers from Victoria was withheld as punishment, with wages and contracts being controlled by the Aboriginal Protection Board [8]. Not every worker was affected though. Today we talk about 'stolen wages' because in many cases Aboriginal people did not receive parts or all of these wages. Historians estimate that the state of Queensland alone owes around $500 million to Aboriginal people [4]. Some individuals are owed close to half a million dollars in today's terms [9]. According to the dictionary, if someone "works under duress and without payment" they are considered slaves. The stolen wages are always about the slavery Australia denies until today. Documents exist showing that governments knew exactly what they were doing, and that they were breaking the law[6][7]. Investigations reveal that Aboriginal wages were misappropriated by governments to cover their own liabilities, including the cost of removing Aboriginal children. This means Aboriginal people were unwittingly paying for the removal of their own children. [10] Lawyers know that stolen wages claimants' demands rest on legal right and not on the uncertain and contestable ground of moral right [9], however governments show excellence in delaying and rejecting claims. Time works against Aboriginal people as they grow older and die without receiving compensation. Source: Stolen Wages - Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/economy/stolen-wages/stolen-wages#
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@buildmotosykletist1987 Pathetic. Unable to deny actual facts, all you have is CCP bot and shoving your fingers in your ears and screeching its a lie. Pathetic. What sort of lowlife racist just denies recorded factual history and just mindlessly claims indigenous wage theft didn't happen. Pathetic and just cowardly. You can't even face up to recorded plain facts and our recent racist history. Total gutlessness.
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