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Mustering courage: Indigenous cattle workers want back pay they’re owed

Mustering courage: Indigenous cattle
workers want back pay they’re owed

Australia’s northern cattle industry prospered on the backs of Indigenous men and women who worked as slaves, lived in humpies, and went unpaid and uncared for by their bosses and the federal government supposedly protecting them. Now, like dudded workers anywhere, they want the back-pay and benefits they are owed and should have been receiving for nearly a century. Dr Thalia Anthony explains their legal case.

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