Poster for Stolen Wages campaign 2005
2002 — The Queensland Government offers $55.4 million to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers whose wages and savings were unfairly controlled by successive governments from 1897 through to the 1980s. $4000 was offered to older people and $2000 to younger people. A written apology for Stolen Wages was also made to each individual.
2006 — The Commonwealth Parliament sets up a Senate inquiry into Stolen Wages.