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Shaken Aurukun woman says the remote Cape York community needs help

Shaken Aurukun woman says the remote Cape York community needs help

PHYLLIS Yunkaporta is battered and bruised – but not beaten. The 54-year-old Wik elder was ...
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Indigenous leader claims he warned government about violence in remote community

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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Aurukun streets

Media Release: Government must step up in Aurukun

The Queensland Government must step up and genuinely empower cultural leadership in the Aurukun community ...
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Pearson calls on Aurukun community to 'step up'

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

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 ...
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Shireen Morris: A practical

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 ...
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Push to end passive indigenous welfare delivers results

Push to end passive indigenous welfare delivers results

Cape York leader Noel Pearson’s drive to turn communities away from passive welfare reliance has ...
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Natalie Walker: Dreaming big and chasing dreams: helping Indigenous mothers finish school

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 ...
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Beach on sunset

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 ...
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Tree clearing: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson hits out at changes to Queensland's Native Vegetation Act

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 ...
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We failed our kids: Noel Pearson warning on self-determination

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, ...
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Noel Pearson: Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languages

Noel Pearson: Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languages

In December last year, Northern Territory MP Bess Price was chided by the Speaker of ...
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Government half measures on Empowered Communities doom reform to fail

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 ...
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Empowered indigenous communities have spoken: time for action

Empowered indigenous communities have spoken: time for action

Before the 2013 election, both the Gillard Labor government and the Tony Abbott-led opposition committed ...
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Radical centre can create highest compromise on recognition

Radical centre can create highest compromise on recognition

To paraphrase the Great One, “every galah in every pet shop is talking innovation”. The ...
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Noel Pearson says 1788 is 'one of three' defining moments for Australia

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 ...
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Noel Pearson: Stan Grant's 'tour de force' a companion to Keating's Redfern speech

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 ...
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Noel Pearson begins National Press Club address in Guugu Yimidhirr language – video

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 ...
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'I was 35 and made the wrong turn': Noel Pearson reveals his greatest regret

‘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 ...
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