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 conditionally offered a maximum payment of $4000 for those affected. For many, that $4000 represented a lifetime's work. Most people have no idea what they are truly owed. Trustees on Trial explores the extensive primary evidence of financial (mis)management in terms of national and international case law. It demonstrates there is ample precedence for the courts to declare Queensland governments duty to accountability. This would reverse the onus of proof from the individual to the State, therefore putting all the other state and territory governments o