Unfinished business
Subtitle: Indigenous stolen wages
By: The Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Series: Senate Committee report / Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee
Publisher: Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians; Legal status, laws; Government relations; Australians; Reparations; Employment; Law and legislation; History; Wages
Other titles: Indigenous stolen wages; Stolen wages inquiry
Notes: "December 2006".

"Senate Committee report. Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committee"--Cover.

Chair: Marise Payne.

"The terms of reference for this inquiry relate to 'Indigenous workers whose paid labour was controlled by Government'. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, governments put into place extensive controls over the employment, working conditions and wages of Indigenous workers. These controls permitted, both explicitly and implicitly, the non-payment of wages to some Indigenous workers, as well as the under-payment of wages, and the diversion of wages into trust and saving accounts ... The committee also notes that this inquiry has come to be known as the 'Stolen Wages' inquiry ... In the context of this inquiry it [the term] refers to all wages, savings, entitlements and other monies due to Indigenous people during the periods  where governments sought to control the lives of Indigenous people."--P. 3.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online. Address as at 23/1/07: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/legcon_ctte/stolen_wages/report/report.pdf

Commonwealth of Australia 2006.