Media Appearances and Publications

2016

Launch of Class Action to recover Stolen Wages – 12 September 2016

• ABC TV. 7.30 Report. ‘Noel Pearson’s uncle leads class action against Queensland Government to recover ‘stolen wages’.
• ABC News. ‘Queensland class action over unpaid wages for Indigenous people ‘setting a national precedent’
• Brisbanetimes.com.au. ‘Aboriginal stolen wages lawsuit ‘as important as Mabo’ to go national’
• Cairns Post. ‘Class action over $500 million stolen wage bill dating back to 1930s’
• Cairns Post. ‘Most stolen wages claimants from the Far North’
• The Wire. ‘Lawyers get behind stolen wages campaign’
• The Wire. ‘Indigenous Wages’.
• The Guardian. ‘Indigenous activist leads class action to recover wages ‘stolen’ by state
• The Huffington Post. ‘Noel Pearson’s Uncle Leads The Fight To Recover ‘Stolen Wages’
• CAAMA (Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association) Class action in Queensland.

2015

• ABC Radio National. Background Briefing ‘WA’s stolen wages shame’ 
• No Coincidence Media. Servant or Slave. Documentary – consultant and participant.

2014

• Justice Now. Human Rights in Australia (Online Journal)
• ABC RadioNational. Did Legalised Slavery Exist?  & News story

2013

• State Library of Queensland. ‘Black Opium Symposium’ Fiona Foley, Ros Kidd, Anna Haebich, Andrew Gillet

2012     

• ABC Radio. The World Today. ‘Cricism of WA Government’s stolen wages offer’
  ABC  TV.  Landline.   Interview re stolen wages in Queensland and Western Australia, and government offers of compensation.
• ABC Radio National . Hindsight  ‘Emperor for life: Killoran’s Queensland’.

2010

• ABC National Breakfast  ABC Radio National.  (Ros Kidd starts at 2.30 minutes)
• ABC Radio National . Late Night Live. ‘Legacy of Patrick Killoran, Queensland Aboriginal Administrator’

2008

• ABC Radio National. Awaye! ‘A question of trust’ 
• ABC Radio National.  The Drum  ‘Stolen wages: labour’s forgotten outrage’.

2007

• ABC Radio National.  Hindsight.  ‘A Question of Trust’. 
• ABC Radio National  ‘Hard Labour, Stolen Wages’, interview with Senator Andrew Bartlett.
• National Indigenous Times  ‘New stolen wages report launched into the scandal’
  Amy McQuire (report on the launch of Hard Labour, Stolen Wages).
• The New Zealand Herald ‘Shackled by the state’.
• National Indigenous Times ‘Our slave past’. 

2006

• Australian Senate:  Senator Crossin (page 34), Senator Bartlett (page 36), Senator Brandis (page 38)
  (responses to tabling of Senate Inquiry Report Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wages).
• The Weekend Australian  ‘Rough justice over stolen wages’  Stuart Rintoul.
• The Law Report   ABC Radio National ‘Stolen Wages’.
• In The National Interest  ABC Radio National.  (Ros Kidd starts at 24.40 minutes)
• Speaking Out  ABC Radio National.   [Apply ABC National]
• ABC Radio National. Awaye! ‘Where’s the money?’

2005

• Australian Senate – speech by Senator Andrew Bartlett.
• ABC Radio. PM. ‘Wage repayments should be tax-free: NSW Govt’
• ABC Radio National. AM. ‘Queensland stolen wages scheme criticised’

2004

• Late Night Live, Phillip Adams. 
• BBC News Online  ‘Aborigines fight for their money back’. 

2003

• National Indigenous Times  ‘Lawyers warned off giving stolen wages advice’.
• The Koori Mail  ‘On the cheap’  Elizabeth Burrows.
• The Koori Mail  ‘Waging the battle’. 

2002

• The Australian  ‘Beattie offer adds insult to injury’  Rosemary Neill.
• AWAYE! ABC Radio National  ‘This Whispering in our Hearts’  [Apply ABC National]
• Aboriginal Co-ordinating Council Newsletter  ‘As I see it…’
• Letter from Queensland Governor Major General Peter Arniston.

2000

• Lingua Franca  ABC Radio National  ‘Yes Minister, we must be honest…’
• The Courier Mail  ‘Stolen Lives’. 

1999

• Looking Back, Moving Forwards.  Audio CDs chronicling Indigenous experience in Queensland produced by 4AAA Murri Radio – consult and participate.   [Apply 4AAA Murri Radio]
• Video Education Australia.  History of Aboriginal administration – research and feature in video.  [Not Available]
• Ipswich City Council.  Aboriginal Local History video clips – advisory consultant.  [Not Available]

1998

• Queensland Legislative Assembly  Speech by Mr Mulherin. 
• Like Rubies in the King’s Crown.  Advise and feature in documentary film about Yarrabah.
  [Not Available]
• Australian Senate  Speech by Senator Woodley. 
• Land Rights Queensland   ‘Archives Under Threat’  Christine Howes.

1996

• Land Rights Queensland  ‘The discrimination behind Palm Island’,
• The Australian  ‘Crown demands Aboriginal records from researcher’  Leisa Scott.

1994

• The Courier Mail  ‘Black Days and Flawed Duty’.