Northern Territory Indigenous Workers have gone to the Federal court and are taking legal action over decades of lost income during the last century.
Shine Lawyers, who have taken the case, said the commonwealth held workers' paychecks in unreleased trust-accounts under so-called ‘protective legislation’ between 1933 and 1972.
Anyone who believes their wages have been stolen, including descendants of deceased workers, are eligible to join the action.
A similar action was filed against the Western Australian Government for years of unpaid wages,which is yet to be settled.