NAIDOC week was 8 to 15 July. This week on Accent of Women, we bring you the voices of Aboriginal women in struggle. In the second part of the show, we play an exerpt from a public meeting held at Victoria’s Trades Hall. The public meeting was called Fighting for Black issues in a White Democracy.

But first up on the show, the landmark announcement about the Stolen Wages settlement. A class action on behalf of an estimated 10,000 Indigenous workers in Queensland who had their wages stolen last century has been settled with the state government for $190m. For decades leading up to the 1970s, the wages of Indigenous workers in Queensland were not paid directly to them but to the state under so-called "Protection Acts". But about 60 per cent of those involved in this historic case, have since passed on.

One of the claimaints, Colleen Hurley, joins us on the show.