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Descendants of Indigenous workers who laboured for decades as stockmen, farmhands, and domestic workers in the Northern Territory with minimal or no pay have launched a “landmark” class action t
Lawyers say they have filed a class action on behalf of Indigenous stockmen, farmhands and domestic labourers who were forced to work for little or no pay during the last century.
Class action launched against Commonwealth for Stolen Generation
By Jerome Doraisamy|28 April 2021
Northern Territory-based survivors of the Stolen Generation have issued legal proceedings against the Commonwealth, demanding compensation for the forcible removal from their families as children, from 1910 to the 1970s.
A class action has been filed in the NSW Supreme Court by First Nations Australians based in the NT for injustices endured by thousands of Indigenous families.
The proceedings are being run by Shine Lawyers and funded by Litigation Lending Services (LLS). The case follows extensive consultation with affected NT community members, the firm said in a statement.
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Hundreds of Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their
families as children are suing the government in a class action launched on Wednesday seeks compensation for the injustice.
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Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths were taken from
their homes and put in foster care with white families, under official
assimilation policies that persisted into the 1970s.
Now known as the Stolen Generations , they were routinely
punished for speaking their own languages or practising their culture, and many
never saw their parents or siblings again.