Stolen Wages
From 1900 to 1970 the Aborigines of Australia were withheld part of their salary by the state, which is now discussed as Stolen Wages in Australia.
In all of Australia's colonies and later states, governments passed indigenous laws in the 19th century, such as the Queensland Protection Act . According to these laws, wages or wage shares of the Aborigines were collected by the state. This happened until the 1970s, depending on the state. Payments for the labor of Aboriginal children were paid in full to the state up to the age of 17 and were to be paid out in adulthood. In 1997 the organization ANTaR was founded, which looks after the interests of those affected with its Stolen Wages (stolen wages) campaign . An investigation by the Queensland government found that a $ 55 million settlement would be required. According to ANTaR, this sum is only a small portion of the Stolen Wages, because the proposed $ 55 million would mean that a compensation payment would be made up in part for decades of unpaid work with a flat rate of $ 4,000 to & $ 2,000 (about EUR 1,200). The debate about the Stolen Wages led to a comparison in Australian newspapers with the compensation payments made by the Federal Republic to Poland, Russia and the Jewish Claims Conference . To this day, analog payments have been refused in Australia.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on www.antar.org.au ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 10, 2009
- ↑ stolen wages, missing trust funds - the fight for justice at www.eniar.org , accessed on July 10, 2009
- ^ Gerhard Leitner (2006): The Aborigines of Australia. P. 33 f. Beck-Verlag, Munich. ISBN 3406508898 .
