Media and Speeches
Teela Reid: Labor turns down volume on voice that must be heard
In July 2018 the opposition Australian Labor Party signalled that it would soften its public ...
Read More Interim report set to test ideas on Recognition
A federal parliamentary committee will “feed the ball into the scrum” with its first report ...
Read More ‘Dastardly deeds, betrayal and stalking horses’: Noel Pearson opens up
In a wide-ranging interview on NITV’s Living Black, Cape York leader Noel Pearson has said ...
Read More OPINION: The Government sets the goal posts, only to move them when Indigenous people score
The struggle for rights, even dignity, for Indigenous people in this country could be likened ...
Read More ‘A tectonic shift in justice’: how the Wik people fought the law and won
“More than two decades after a historic High Court victory, a new documentary revisits how ...
Read More Film screens ahead of TV premiere
A FILM screening and a flag raising ceremony will help celebrate NAIDOC Week in Sandgate ...
Read More Memo to migrants: please stay off the path to welfare’ – Noel Pearson:
There is something more important for migrants coming to our country than passing an English ...
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Noel Pearson addresses Uphold and Recognise Big Ideas Launch
Thank you Rachel and thank you Justice Kirby. Thank you to the Australian Catholic University ...
Read More Warrior spirits: The Wik women who stood up for their land and communities
The Wik V Queensland case was backed by strength and tenacity of the Traditional Owners, ...
Read More Malcolm Turnbull urged to answer calls for ‘voice’ to parliament
Malcolm Turnbull has been urged to “immediately” answer calls for an indigenous “voice” to parliament ...
Read More ‘Voice’ plan ready, ‘sense of justice’ still needed
Malcolm Turnbull’s criticism of the Referendum Council’s report on indigenous constitutional recognition — that it ...
Read More Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word ‘kangaroo’
An Indigenous language that has survived for more than 50,000 years and gave Australia the ...
Read More Review: Wik vs Queensland
Any first year law student could tell you the importance of Wik Peoples v Queensland [1996] HCA ...
Read More Noel Pearson offers PM a new path to First Nations voice
Noel Pearson has offered Malcolm Turnbull an olive branch on indigenous constitutional recognition, telling a ...
Read More Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti: AFL player passionate about indigenous education
From a Tiwi Islands childhood where he couldn’t read or write, AFL player Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti ...
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Remember passive welfare? It’s real, it’s still here and it’s hurting our children – Noel Pearson
Passive welfare has fallen out of the lexicon of Australia’s political leaders. Passive welfare is ...
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Aboriginal Councils address concerns at Cairns forum
FAR Northern indigenous communities are urging the Federal Government to extend its housing investment package ...
Read More Hieu Van Le’s story: one thread in Australia’s rich tapestry
Hieu Van Le arrived on a wooden boat that chugged into Darwin Harbour on a ...
Read More Building on the Uluru statement
In July last year, the Referendum Council met with the prime minister. It was a ...
Read More In the spirit of getting the ball rolling, Noel Pearson offers this ‘Declaration of Australia and the Australian People’
WHEREAS THREE STORIES MAKE AUSTRALIA: the Ancient Indigenous Heritage which is its foundation, the British ...
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