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      <name>Indigenous Australians, Stolen Wages</name>
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        <heading>Indigenous Australians, Stolen Wages</heading>
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        <name>The Hon. T.A. FRANKS</name>
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            <name>Indigenous Australians, Stolen Wages</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4363" referenceid="93519aefc9814df9a5e20a43c35e142f">The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:42):</by>  Supplementary: how will the government tackle the stolen wages of Aboriginal people in South Australia, given we are the last jurisdiction to take action on this matter?</text>
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        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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            <name>Indigenous Australians, Stolen Wages</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:42):</by>  I thank the honourable member for her question. It's an issue that I know has been tackled. There have been legal decisions in other jurisdictions that have paved the way in a whole range of areas. We have led the nation in some areas: certainly in mainland Australia we were the first jurisdiction with a Stolen Generations Reparation Scheme, but we are always open to doing what we can further, including looking at stolen wages schemes.</text>
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