Stolen wages and living under wage control laws involved long hours, lonely days, say Aboriginal workers

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.

“You do the cooking, you do housework such as it was. Just every day work, you did it,” she said.

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