Lara Watson

Mark Hogan interviews Lara Watson who is a Birri Gubba woman from Central West Queensland and the Indigenous Officer with the ACTU. She has been involved with the Trade Union movement for almost 15 years. Lara has worked on numerous Indigenous campaigns with Unions, including the fight for Muckaty, Queensland Stolen Wages, the NT Intervention, and she is currently organising the First Nations Workers Alliance & the ‘Wage Justice’ campaign for Community Development Workers in remote Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities.