Disabled workers paid $3 an hour at Australia’s ‘sheltered workshops’ - The Saturday Paper

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Brooke Canham is no stranger to hard work. For two years, Canham worked in a role that promised her “opportunities” and a better future: she washed cars, packed pamphlets, and filled show bags. For this tiring, monotonous work, Canham was paid just $3 an hour. “It made me feel so upset,” she tells _The Saturday Paper_. “It was unfair that people got more money than me for doing the same job. This …