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• Aboriginal Trust Fund Repayment Scheme: NSW Government [Search]
  Guidelines for the administration of the fund. For much of the 20th century, the NSW Government took money belonging to Aboriginal people and placed it in trust accounts.Significant sums have never been repaid. This repayment scheme allowed trust account holders or their descendants to lodge a claim for their own money, but all claims had to have been lodged before the end of 2008.
• Stolen Wages Settlement - Queensland [Search]
  Details of reparations scheme set up by Queensland Government consequent upon class action taken in the Federal Court in 2016.
• Unfinished Business : Indigenous Stolen Wages (2006) [Search]
  Report of Senate Inquiry - From the 1890s and even until the 1980s, Indigenous people were subjected to Protection Acts in mainland states and in the NT. Governments and “Protectors” controlled all aspects of Indigenous lives, including employment and payment of wages. Many people were forced to have their wages paid into trust accounts, which never returned the money. (on Parliament of Australia)