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Keira Jenkins

Govt apologises for suffering caused by stolen wages

Senator McCarthy said Indigenous Australians had been used for back-breaking labour for little pay. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Indigenous people who worked for little or no wages under discriminatory commonwealth laws have received an apology from the federal government. 

Speaking in the Senate, Indigenous Australians minister Malarndirri McCarthy acknowledged the injustice of these laws for people who worked for little or no wages in the Northern Territory between 1933 and 1971. 

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