Media and Speeches
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 ...
Read More Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us – Noel Pearson
Our nation is in three parts. There is our ancient heritage, written in the continent ...
Read More Noel Pearson’s stories from the heart of Australia
Three stories that “make Australia” are the centrepiece of a historic declaration drafted by Noel ...
Read More Danny Gilbert: Why we need an Indigenous ‘voice to the Parliament’
Twelve months later we yet have another Joint Select Committee considering Indigenous Constitutional Recognition. We ...
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The Uluru Statement From The Heart Lowitja O’donoghue Oration 2018
I thank the Kaurna people for your kindness. I bring greetings from Cape York Peninsula ...
Read More Regions key to giving voice to recognition, says Noel Pearson
Indigenous constitutional recognition will remain “unresolved” unless the proposed advisory voice to parliament is taken ...
Read More Two years on from the Palaszczuk intervention, it’s time for a report on Aurukun school
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, two years ago you wanted the Aurukun school on Cape York to ...
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