Media and Speeches
Keating and the speech we had to have
TWENTY years ago today, the prime minister of Australia went to Redfern to launch the ...
Read More Fiona Jose Awarded Not for Profit Manager of the Year 2012
The cream of Queensland business enterprise rose to the top on Friday night when the 2012 ...
Read More Remote school shifts gears for brighter future
THE last time Tony Abbott visited Aurukun, a remote indigenous community on the west coast ...
Read More Cape York residents protest ‘wild rivers’ laws
Traditional owners in Cape York have staged a protest rally against environmental laws they say ...
Read More Fighting for their country: inside the battle for Cape York
This week’s Federal Court ruling that the Wild Rivers declarations introduced by the former Queensland ...
Read More Noel Pearson: Constitutional reform crucial to Indigenous wellbeing – The Australian
I HAVE been close to the epicentre of indigenous policy for 20 years now. During ...
Read More Noel Pearson: 2011 Griffith Lecture
INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS ARE COMING TO OUR MEIJI MOMENT: HOW TO PURSUE DEVELOPMENT AND KEEP OUR ...
Read More Remote dream a self-built reality
THE country around Hope Vale in far north Queensland is stubbornly equivocal. It can't decide ...
Read More Radical Hope Book: A Talk by Noel Pearson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uux8CoXULn0 In his new book, Radical Hope, one of Australia's most original and provocative thinkers ...
Read More Symbolism is not enough: Pearson
CONSTITUTIONAL recognition of Aboriginal Australians should go beyond symbolism and drive a new approach to ...
Read More LNP to change Wild Rivers laws: Newman
Queensland's Liberal National Party will overhaul the state's controversial Wild Rivers legislation if elected at ...
Read More When outsiders stir up tensions in tribal societies
I HAVE just put down Jason Stearns’s book, Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. It ...
Read More Job-service parasites get rich living off the unemployed
UNEMPLOYED people have invisible bar codes tattooed on their foreheads. This makes them commodities in ...
Read More Government defends ‘revolutionary’ Indigenous welfare reform model
Cape York Institute director Noel Pearson has hit back at a Queensland Opposition MP who ...
Read More Down payments on a hope-filled future
THIS is Shaunica Lee Cheu from my home town. She is now a Year 10 ...
Read More Cape mayors ‘shocked’ by Fielding backflip
Family First Senator Steve Fielding's decision to withdraw support from a bill which would have ...
Read More Noel Pearson: Sir Robert Menzies Lecture 2011
THERE IS NOTHING THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO FOR YOU THAT YOU ARE UNWILLING TO DO ...
Read More Noel Pearson: Seek indigenous views ahead of full referendum – The Australian
THIS week I put forward two ideas for the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The ...
Read More Noel Pearson: Aboriginal referendum a test of national maturity – The Australian
I think this referendum is important in terms of moving forward with unfinished business. ...
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