Media and Speeches
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 ...
Read More Indigenous group plans Wild Rivers-style fight over clearing laws
Cape York Aboriginal leader Gerhardt Pearson has told Queensland’s government that powerful indigenous groups are ...
Read More Social housing model rips the heart out of indigenous communities: Noel Pearson
“I OFTEN take my doctors from the Third World on the short walk from the ...
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We Must be Actors in Our Own Destiny – Noel Pearson
This gap won’t close until black fellas take charge of our lives and governments allow ...
Read More Aboriginal leaders say PM Malcolm Turnbull was ‘deceitful’ over recognition dialogue
Aboriginal leaders have accused the Prime Minister of being "deceitful" and duplicitous for privately encouraging ...
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Australia Day on January 25-26 a ‘noble’ compromise between old and new | Noel Pearson
The observance of Australia Day could commence on January 25 — the eve of the ...
Read More Shireen Morris: Don’t Change the Date, Change Its Meaning
When Captain Cook made his treacherous voyage to Australia in 1770, he carried with him ...
Read More Lutheran legacy binds my people to Flo and Joh Bjelke-Petersen
Several thousand Aboriginal people spread across former missions in South Australia, Hermannsburg in the Northern ...
Read More The day Turnbull called me Lord Byron: Noel Pearson quizzed at Woodford
Constitutional reform activist Noel Pearson has told of how he was dubbed "Lord Byron" by ...
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The Long Struggle for a Voice: Noel Pearson – Woodford Folk Festival 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC3hMEl7Dlo
Read More Australia needs another true visionary like Paul Keating
This month marked a quarter-century since prime minister Paul Keating spoke at Redfern Park, admitting ...
Read More Leaders Ready to Convert Claims to Jobs in Cape York
Community and Indigenous leaders from Cape York gather at a major forum to shift the ...
Read More Indigenous Australians ‘taking power back’ from government in Queensland
The newly-appointed CEO of a peak body fighting for indigenous communities in north Queensland said the ...
Read More A Voice for First Nations
Fiona Jose reflects on this year's developments on a proposal for First Nations Voice to ...
Read More Christian Porter lashes out at lawyer Shireen Morris in recognition row
Tensions over the Turnbull government’s dismissal of proposals for indigenous constitutional recognition have erupted, with ...
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