Class action launched against West Australian Government over Indigenous stolen wages | ABC News

Thousands of Indigenous Australians and their descendants will today file a class action against the WA govt, hoping to claw back decades of unpaid wages. The ABC speaks to one former domestic servant, a woman now in her 70s who was paid in bars of soap as a girl, and the adult son of another woman who worked from the age of nine without ever seeing a wage.

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