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Aaron Bunch

Pay day near for Aboriginal workers robbed of wages

A class action led by Mervyn Street will bring compensation to discriminated Indigenous workers. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

Thousands of Indigenous workers who were paid little or no wages for almost four decades, and their families, will share in up to $180 million in compensation following a court decision.

Many Aboriginal people were exploited and forced to work long hours between 1936 and 1972, and often only paid in rations under discriminatory Western Australian laws.

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