Lawyers get behind Stolen Wages campaign
A public interest law group is offering its services to those who think they have a strong case in Queensland’s Stolen Wages debate. The Beattie Government has already begun handing out reparation of up to 4 thousand dollars – to Indigenous people who had their wages and savings withheld for almost a century. But the Public Interest Law Clearing House, Q-PILCH will assess those people who they think may have a strong case – and refer them on for private pro-bono legal representation. The hope is that, a demonstration of the legal merits will pressure the Queensland government to offer better compensation. Historian Dr ROS KIDD, an advocate of Queensland’s stolen wages campaign, says recipients are owed much more than the government’s admitting.