ACTU ratchets up work-for-the-dole campaign

By Fergus Hunter
Updated August 6 2017 - 7:08am, first published 7:01am
Sally McManus , Secretary of the ACTU. Photo Nick Moir 30 March 2017
Sally McManus , Secretary of the ACTU. Photo Nick Moir 30 March 2017

A $1.5 billion work-for-the-dole program that overwhelmingly targets Indigenous communities has been labelled racist by Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus, with the prominent unionist arguing the government's policy denies Aboriginal people rights enjoyed by other Australians.

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