Federal class action lodged over ‘racially discriminatory’ work for the dole scheme
by Ella Archibald-Binge from World news | The Guardian on (#70DCJ)
The community development program required those in remote areas - mostly Indigenous people - to work more than city-based participants
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A class action seeking compensation for about 20,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were part of a work for the dole scheme that made remote participants work longer hours under more onerous conditions than people in the cities has been lodged in the federal court.
The community development program required remote participants to work up to 50 hours a fortnight, five days a week, 52 weeks a year as a condition of income support. More than 80% of participants were Indigenous.
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