Media and Speeches
Indigenous leader claims he warned government about violence in remote community
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he warned the Queensland Government two ...
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Media Release: Government must step up in Aurukun
The Queensland Government must step up and genuinely empower cultural leadership in the Aurukun community ...
Read More Pearson calls on Aurukun community to ‘step up’
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has called on the leaders and families of a remote Cape ...
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Noel Pearson Keynote address at Batiba Guwiyal conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIDSun_FJAY Noel Pearson, Advisor, Cape York Institute of Policy and Leadership in Brisbane The Batiba ...
Read More Shireen Morris: A practical, constitutional promise to do things with Aborigines, not to them
Noel Pearson has said that in the process of reconciliation, after sorry should come a ...
Read More Push to end passive indigenous welfare delivers results
Cape York leader Noel Pearson’s drive to turn communities away from passive welfare reliance has ...
Read More Natalie Walker: Dreaming big and chasing dreams: helping Indigenous mothers finish school
Approximately 90% of Indigenous teenage mums won’t finish school, but there is a way for ...
Read More Fiona Jose: Smallbone report: Past wrongs to blame for Aurukun crisis
AURUKUN is again in the news and though the news is not new, it is ...
Read More Noel Pearson: Conservative role essential in indigenous recognition
It was late in the 1990s that I first learned about the kindness and generosity ...
Read More Tree clearing: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson hits out at changes to Queensland’s Native Vegetation Act
Prominent Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has hit out against the tightening of Queensland's ...
Read More We failed our kids: Noel Pearson warning on self-determination
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has urged indigenous communities to take greater care of their children, ...
Read More Noel Pearson: Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languages
In December last year, Northern Territory MP Bess Price was chided by the Speaker of ...
Read More Government half measures on Empowered Communities doom reform to fail
Like many, I welcomed the Prime Minister's Closing the Gap speech. Hearing one of our ...
Read More Empowered indigenous communities have spoken: time for action
Before the 2013 election, both the Gillard Labor government and the Tony Abbott-led opposition committed ...
Read More Radical centre can create highest compromise on recognition
To paraphrase the Great One, “every galah in every pet shop is talking innovation”.
Read More Noel Pearson says 1788 is ‘one of three’ defining moments for Australia
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has used his National Press Club address to lament the fact ...
Read More Noel Pearson: Stan Grant’s ‘tour de force’ a companion to Keating’s Redfern speech
A speech by the veteran journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant to the Ethics Centre ...
Read More Noel Pearson begins National Press Club address in Guugu Yimidhirr language – video
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson begins his address at the National Press Club in his traditional ...
Read More ‘I was 35 and made the wrong turn’: Noel Pearson reveals his greatest regret
Australia's most prominent Indigenous leader and activist, Noel Pearson, has said not entering politics is ...
Read More Shireen Morris: No Australian should feel like a stranger in their own country
Australia Day: celebrate our Indigenous heritage, our British inheritance and our multicultural achievement.
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