by NRB | 8 Nov 2022 | Non-fiction |
Ben Scheiders examines wage theft and challenges the notion that Australia is a fair-minded society. Ben Schneiders is an investigative reporter with The Age. Since 2015 he has written hundreds of articles on wage theft with colleague Royce Millar. His object in this...
by NRB | 21 Apr 2020 | Non-fiction |
Anne Scrimgeour’s history of the Pilbara Aboriginal Strike recounts a pivotal moment in Australian history when white pastoralists had to start paying their Aboriginal workers. In 1946 Aboriginal workers on the remote sheep stations of the Pilbara walked off the...
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