Twins Demand Stolen Wages Payment

More questions about Queensland's handling of stolen wages.

Torres Strait island twin brothers are appealing to the Queensland government to pay out stolen wages withheld from them and thousands of other indigenous people.

An estimated half-a-billion dollars was taken by the government up to the 1970s to be held in trust, but was lost through fraud and mismanagement.

In 2002, the government promised to pay out 55-million-dollars, but ended up putting almost half into an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander educational trust fund, to the disgust of claimants.

One of the 76-year-old twins received a reparation payment but the other didn't, despite both working on the same boat as divers, from the age of 13.

Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster speaks with Paul and Arthur Ah Wang after they met with state Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander affairs minister Curtis Pitt.