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'Let us go Home' - Perth Rally - Lockridge sacred land

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Join us at the Rally - for justice and humanity for our People especially those who are homeless living on the streets and at risk of dying on the streets

Ask the Premier, Mr Barnett to let us go Home to our Sacred Land to live in peace and harmony as we did since the Beginning of Time.

First Nations pastoral workers seeking compensation for years of unpaid labour

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Lucy Martin ABC News 13 September 2013


Retired stockman Ben Barney worked on pastoral stations and missions around the Kimberley and NT

Aboriginal workers have played a key role in establishing Western Australia's pastoral and agricultural industries.

Half a billion in Stolen Wages contributed to abject poverty

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In 2013 Mr Conrad Yeatman, a proud old Aboriginal man who was never paid directly for a lifetime of work receives nothing and in the same week Francis Abbott (Daughter of Tony Abbott), born of privilege receives a $60,000 scholarship to help her study.

Conrad Yeatman
Conrad Yeatman
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Dr Woolombi Waters The Stringer 4 June 2014

Racism is a major driver of First Nations Peoples ill health

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When we talk about Aboriginal health, we often talk as if the problem is "Being Aboriginal" - but in reality, "Being Aboriginal" is a marker for having experienced racism, discrimination, colonisation and genocide.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

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I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. The author of this article sees white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that can be cashed in each day. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks

WA under fire over stolen wages compensation

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Stolen Wages

The West Australian Government is under fire over its compensation offer to pay lost wages to thousands of the state's Indigenous workers.

Between 1905 and 1972, the government withheld up to three-quarters of the wages earned by workers on state-run Native Welfare Settlements, but they never got their hard earned money back.