Trustees on trial: recovering the stolen wages / Rosalind Kidd.

Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006.

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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Queensland.

Aboriginal Australians, treatment of -- Queensland -- History.

Aboriginal Australians -- Reparations -- Queensland.

1. The deal

2. Coerced dependency

3. The law's blunt tool

4. Officiously assumed without request

5. In bad hands

6. Tainted discretion

7. An ordinary prudent man.

Rosalind Kidd uses official correspondence to reveal the extraordinary extent of government controls over Aboriginal wages, savings, endowments and pensions in 20th century Queensland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780855755461

xii, 212 p. : ill.