Media
Direct interference: Cape York Academy’s good work under threat
The Australian |
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 way out of the blind gully of calls for symbolic apologies that followed the Stolen Generations debate and the white middle-class orgy of moral superiority that was the “sorry walk”…
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won’t fix problems facing Indigenous Australia
ABC |
One week since the Prime Minister announced a royal commission into the Northern Territory’s youth detention system, Mr Pearson told Lateline he did not think it would make a difference.
Shireen Morris: Noel Pearson on recognition: no ‘radical’ shift in position
The Australian |
Amos Aikman (The Australian, August 1) claims Noel Pearson was once in favour of modest reform but has now joined the radicals.
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarceration
The Guardian |
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised “selective outrage” over the Northern Territory juvenile detention abuse saga, saying Indigenous people need to take some responsibility.
Noel Pearson calls for constitutional recognition and slams ‘selective outrage’ at Garma Festival
Brisbane Times |
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 in north-east Arnhem Land on Saturday.
Garma festival: Noel Pearson hits out at ‘bureaucratic and political bastardry’
The Guardian |
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 dispossess children, such as the attempt to shut down his educational program of direct instruction.
Aurukun elders lash out at review
Courier Mail |
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 our community”.
Aurukun review ignores disability: Noel Pearson
Brisbane Times |
Children in Aurukun shouldn’t be compared to other students across Queensland, just like disabled athletes shouldn’t be compared to able-bodied ones, Noel Pearson says.
Aurukun parents launch campaign to reopen Cape York Academy
ABC |
A group of Aurukun parents has launched an advertising campaign pleading with the state and federal governments to continue with the Cape York Academy.
Critics from Left and Right can’t stomach Aurukun school model’s successes
The Australian |
There is nothing of which I am surer than the success of the teachers and students of the Cape York Academy since we entered into a schools partnership with the Queensland Department of Education in 2010 in the small country town of Coen and the once again, reluctant, headline-grabbing community of Aurukun.