This paper examines the history and impact of Stolen Wages practices on Indigenous peoples. For more than 150 years, Australian governments and their agencies significantly controlled the wages, entitlements and savings of generations of Indigenous peoples. This control was exercised through a number of Stolen Wages practices, including not paying or underpaying Indigenous workers for their labour, creating trust funds that compulsory acquired Indigenous savings and mismanaged these savings through incompetence or fraud, not paying social security entitlements to Indigenous peoples, such as invalid and old age pensions, child endowments, maternity allowances, widow’s pensions and unemployment benefits, and imposing harsh employment controls on Indigenous workers.