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Business must help with social reform: Ken Henry
Former Treasury boss Ken Henry has called on corporate Australia to help wean indigenous communities off welfare and not leave the job to the state. The man who held the…
Noel Pearson hits out at political parties for ‘welfare reform failure’
Noel Pearson has criticised successive federal governments for failing to implement meaningful welfare reform, and the left for “inculcating a sense of victimhood” in those dependent on welfare. Delivering the…
Aboriginal stolen wages lawsuit ‘as important as Mabo’ to go national
A landmark class action lawsuit aiming to claw back the stolen wages of about 300 Aboriginal Queenslanders could be the beginning of something much bigger, with similar moves planned nationally…
Direct interference: Cape York Academy’s good work under threat
When Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson first published his small book Our Right to Take Responsibility in the late 1990s it was immediately welcomed by thoughtful conservatives as a…
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won’t fix problems facing Indigenous Australia
One week since the Prime Minister announced a r
Shireen Morris: Noel Pearson on recognition: no ‘radical’ shift in position
Amos Aikman (The Australian, August 1) claims Noel Pearson was once in favour of modest reform but has now joined the radicals. He does not understand that Pearson argues for…
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarceration
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised “selective outrage” over the Northern Territory juvenile detention abuse saga, saying Indigenous people need to take some responsibility. Pearson says more focus is needed…
Noel Pearson calls for constitutional recognition and slams ‘selective outrage’ at Garma Festival
Noel Pearson has slammed the futility of “selective outrage” and called on Australia to get practical about closing the gap during a debate about constitutional reform at the Garma Festival…
Garma festival: Noel Pearson hits out at ‘bureaucratic and political bastardry’
Noel Pearson has launched a blistering tirade against the Australian public, governments and media over “selective outrage” that was vented over the Don Dale abuses but not against decisions that…
Aurukun elders lash out at review
GROUP of Wik women from Cape York have lashed out at the review into Aurukun’s community school, comparing it to the 1970s when “the government barged in to take over…