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Racial Loyalty News => General News => Downunder News => Topic started by: Br.IanVonTurpie on Thu 11 Dec 2014
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The NT government's proposed work-for-the-dole scheme is tantamount to slave labour, Aboriginal traditional owners say.
The Original Peoples Freedom Movement (OPFM) says the scheme is punitive and exploitative and will make people living in remote areas work five days a week over 52 weeks to receive the dole.
"This is nothing but an outrageous land grab and obscene discriminatory policy that is being only implemented against one people without even the guise of consultation or negotiation," OPFM founder Tauto Sansbury told AAP.
"It's a slave labour opportunity."
He said the remote work-for-the-dole policy was more discriminatory than the urban plan, and didn't outline occupational health and safety, holiday pay, or superannuation.
"Twenty-five hours a week and you work for what you're already entitled to get," he said.
Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion said the scheme would prepare people in remote communities for employment.
"There are some very capable people in the communities, and we need to make sure they're work ready and working for the dole," he told reporters in Darwin on Monday.
"We need youth workers, people in aged care, in the education system, in the creches." However, he conceded there were fewer jobs available in remote communities and most were held by non-indigenous people.
He said the government wanted to make the scheme as work-like as possible, and would determine how many days people would get off for cultural, holiday and sick leave.
OPFM spokesman Paul Spearim Jnr said the policy would force communities to come into already disease-ridden, overcrowded and poverty-riddled townships indigenous people had escaped from over 40 years ago.
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