Trustees on Trial
Kidd, Roslyn
Trustees on Trial is the first book to detail the Queensland (Australia) government's financial stranglehold on Aboriginal people's lives and money, and to question its management. For much of the 20th century, the Queensland government controlled the wages, endowments, pensions, workers compensation, soldiers' pay, and inheritances of the state's Aboriginal people money the government has never accounted for. In 2002, the government condition...