Federal government to pay out $2m to settle class action over ‘racist’ work for the dole program

Then Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion launches the Community Development Program in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory in 2017. The federal government will pay more than $2m after settling a class action which accused the scheme of being racist. Photograph: Lucy Hughes Jones/AAP

Then Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion launches the Community Development Program in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory in 2017. The federal government will pay more than $2m after settling a class action which accused the scheme of being racist. Photograph: Lucy Hughes Jones/AAP

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