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If you're looking for furniture or home goods made in RI, check out the Fine Furnishings Show Nov. 4-6 in Providence, or consult our resource guide.

If you're looking for furniture or home goods made in RI, check out the Fine Furnishings Show Nov. 4-6 in Providence, or consult our resource guide.

Photo: Mint Images/Frans Lanting/AFP 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.

Stolen wages and living under wage control laws involved long hours, lonely days, say Aboriginal workers By Joanna Prendergast, Richard Hudson and Belinda Varischetti © Provided by ABC NEWS Maisie Weston, 93, was sent to work in farmhouses as a domestic servant at 16 years of age. (ABC Rural: Richard Hudson) When 93-year-old Maisie Weston recalls the early years of her working life, she often uses the word "lonely". 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. "Yo...