WORKERS' COMPENSATION INSURANCE PRACTICE IN NEW SOUTH WALES

1931 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 519-519
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
South Wales

The Myth of Mateship: Aborigines and Employment

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McCorquodale
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Workers Compensation ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Black Workers ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Economic Injustice ◽  
Judicial Bias

Historically, Aborigines have suffered legislative restrictions and discrimination in every phase of employment, from the kind of work they could lawfully undertake, to wages, accommodation and workers compensation. Unions have offered little or no support to black workers, and employers have been aided by court decisions based on racist stereotypes. Legislation enshrined unconscionable employment practices by government and private employers alike. An examination of all relevant legislation for Western Australia and New South Wales from the earliest times reveals a perpetuation of economic injustice against Aboriginal workers. All major Concilia tion and Arbitration Commission decisions between 1922 and 1968 on Aborigines- as-workers are analysed and reveal judicial bias. More recent examples of exploita tion are cited in support of the thesis that 'blood' or 'colour' alone were the criteria by which discrimination at the workface was practised and maintained.

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