Queensland residents draw to the attention of the House the inadequacy of both the outcomes and process for the Queensland government Reparations Offer for Aboriginal Wages and Savings. Your petitioners believe the amounts offered to individuals bear no relation to what people earned or had stolen during the periods of control and enforced labour under the various Protection Acts throughout the past century. Your petitioners also believe the process via which this offer was made was flawed, as was admitted by the Honourable Minister Judy Spence after the decision was made to proceed with the current offer. While it is understood the government’s intention was to make the offer ‘in the spirit of reconciliation’, your petitioners wish it to be noted that the offer has not been received in the same spirit, regardless of how many may be forced through circumstance to accept it. As the culmination of a struggle lasting more than 100 years your petitioners believe the offer as it now stands and the process through which it was arrived at offers neither dignity nor closure for the people, families and communities most affected by wages and savings practices and policies under the Protection Acts. The Queensland and Australian economies benefited greatly from the enforced labour of Aboriginal people and your petitioners therefore request that the State re-enter negotiations with relevant Indigenous representatives and bodies to formulate a proper consultation process and outcome with the Queensland Indigenous peoples on their terms.