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At 16 years of age, she was sent to work as a domestic servant, the beginning of years of working in houses on farms across Western Australia s south-west. You do the cooking, you do housework such as it was. Just every day work, you did it, she said. It was a lonely life, I did practically everything.
Weston is one of thousands of Aboriginal people who worked across Western Australia under wage control legislation, which allowed the State Government to withhold wages from Aboriginal people over a period from the late 1800s until the early 1970s.
stomach illnesses at the junior world championships in rio de janiero. the regatta was a test event for next summer s lks less than a year away. while the cause of illness is not known the teames a doctor suspects water pollution is to blame. join meg via skype is u.s. rowing ceo glen merry. glen, what do we know about their illness and what could have caused it and pollution in the water which we know is such an issue? yeah. it s a good question. the water quality has been an issue going into the rio test event and is something that our international federation and tirks oc have been monitoring. over, we did have 15 people come down ill over the course of the week that we were there. over several days. not all in one group. and at different times during competition within the same boats. we went into the competition with sanitation protocol in place from washing ore handles and cleaning up after people came in after the water to eating fruits and vegetables that had been cooked and