Not an authority on historic patterns of mistreatment We see First Nations communities in situations that would not be acceptable in other parts of the province, he said. If you look at it just on the [financial] resource side of it, you say, That shouldn t be a problem. There should be an improvement. … You ve got to have open and frank discussion about why. What is the reason we have not been able to see an improvement over the years?
But he said the historical patterns of mistreatment and discrimination are not part of his analysis. I don t try to be a historian or in any way defend actions of the past, he said. I m not suggesting there hasn t been unjust treatment or whatever, because I m not an authority to be in that position.
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At 16 years of age, she was sent to work as a domestic servant, the beginning of years of working in houses on farms across Western Australia s south-west. You do the cooking, you do housework such as it was. Just every day work, you did it, she said. It was a lonely life, I did practically everything.
Weston is one of thousands of Aboriginal people who worked across Western Australia under wage control legislation, which allowed the State Government to withhold wages from Aboriginal people over a period from the late 1800s until the early 1970s.
Iron ore could be budget saviour again in 2021
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A soaring iron ore price is set to be a budget saviour for the federal government in the new year, with the bulk expected to remain well above the governmentâs forecast price across the next nine months.
Iron ore could give the budget a much-needed boost.Â
Bloomberg
But that forecast appears extremely conservative compared with where economists and analysts expect the bulk to be, delivering a much-needed boost to the governmentâs back pocket.
âThe Treasury stuck to its customary assumption that the iron price will slump from $US155 per tonne today to $US55 by September 2021, whereas we believe it will still trade around $US100 by then,â said Capital Economics senior economist Marcel Thieliant.