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Eleanor Wilson and Abe Maddison

Glaring pay gap costing Indigenous Australians billions

Indigenous Australians are working two months of each year for free due to a race-based pay gap. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Systemic racism is to blame for a glaring Indigenous pay gap that is costing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples billions of dollars a year, a landmark study has found.

The Australian-first Towards Indigenous Pay Parity report released on Thursday revealed Indigenous employees earn 16 cents less for every dollar compared with the average Australian worker, culminating in an average $15,000 discrepancy each year.

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