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Four years of the intervention
For four years now the intervention in the Northern Territory has meant that indigenous workers and communities have been forced to work in second rate conditions. They work alongside others who are paid national minimum standards, while they do the same work but have to live on Centerlink payments. Those payments are then quarantined. This cannot continue and unionists say no!
NUW members and officials attended a rally highlighting the fourth year of the intervention, and the continued exploitation of indigenous workers in the Northern Territory.
In October, the NUW will be having a representative from the Melbourne Anti-Intervention Collective speak at the Victorian delegates conference, so that our members can be get informed and get active.
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Three years of the intervention
Peter Inverway is an Aboriginal construction worker who earns $3.70 an hour to convert an old power station into an arts and crafts centre. This injustice falls back to Howard's era and the NT Intervention Policy.
There will be a rally on this Friday helping to support Aboriginal workers like Peter who are underpaid. You too can support this cause and join the picket on the 3rd anniversary of the intervention to rally for land rights, not leases, real jobs, not rations.
"The NUW supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in their fight for social justice. We support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers’ right to proper wages and employment programs, and we oppose the effect the Northern Territory Emergency Response has had on stripping these conditions.
The NUW endorses public investment in sustainable, real employment in Aboriginal communities and seeks to have the Racial Discrimination Act reinstated.”
Tim Kennedy
Victorian Branch Secretary - NUW
- What: 3rd Anniversary of the Intervention Picket
- Where: FACHSIA Building Casseldon Place, 2 Lonsdale Street Melbourne
- When:Friday June 18th
- Time:12 PM
The rally point for NUW members will be at 11:45 at the top of the steps on Lonsdale St next to Parliament Station.
