Albanese government to pay $202m to NT’s Indigenous workers in stolen wages class action

It follows similar wage theft class actions in Western Australia, where $165m was awarded, and in Queensland, where $190m was awarded

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The federal government will pay up to $202m compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century.

The payout is part of the settlement of a class action on behalf of workers and their families who were subject to Commonwealth wage control legislation between 1933 to 1971.