Posts Tagged ‘Aboriginal’

Due to Covid-19 the 2021 ACRATH National Conference is being held online. Sessions are being spread over three weeks. Was there Slavery in Australia? First People’s Experience was the topic for this first session of the conference held on Wednesday 3rd March. Sherry Balcombe (Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, ACM, Vic) and John Lochowiak (National Aboriginal and Torres Strait…

Labour Trafficking Conviction A Federal Court Judge has ordered that an Indian man trafficked to Australia and exploited in a restaurant in a Sydney suburb be paid $186,000 by the restaurant owner.  The man had been brought into Australia on a 457 visa and kept in slave-like conditions by his employer.  His passport and visa had been…