A racial discrimination class action case against the Queensland government by former Aboriginal mission inmates will go to Federal court tomorrow.
The people from Wujal Wujal, Hope Vale, Mona Mona, Aurukun and Daintree religious missions say they missed out on reparations from the 1999 Forde Inquiry into institutional abuse because they are Aboriginal.
About 100 claims were lodged with the Australian Human Rights Commission.
It has now closed seven cases, the number needed for a class action, after mediation with the Queensland government failed.
Lawyer Kirsten Lesina told Queensland correspondent Stefan Armbruster the inquiry excluded the state-funded indigenous missions because were run by religious orders.
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