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Aurukun: Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson hits out at ‘hyenas’ attacking education system
ABC |
The debate over education in Aurukun has become politically toxic and threatens to undermine the long-term welfare of children who are battling crippling disadvantage, according to Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson.
Former Aurukun principal defends Noel Pearson’s teaching method, says school was improving
ABC |
A former principal of Aurukun’s school in far north Queensland has defended Noel Pearson’s controversial teaching model, saying there has been a dramatic improvement since its introduction.
Cape York bauxite curse could be a blessing for Aboriginal tribe
The Australian |
Bauxite has been a curse to the Aboriginal tribes of western Cape York Peninsula.
Aurukun: Noel Pearson ‘astounded’ by critics of education model
Brisbane Times |
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has defended his education model and says he’s astounded the closure of Aurukun’s school is being used as “a scapegoat” for policing and law and order problems.
Shaken Aurukun woman says the remote Cape York community needs help
Cairns Post |
PHYLLIS Yunkaporta is battered and bruised – but not beaten.
Indigenous leader claims he warned government about violence in remote community
ABC |
MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he warned the Queensland Government two months ago about violence at the remote community of Aurukun.
Media Release: Government must step up in Aurukun
The Queensland Government must step up and genuinely empower cultural leadership in the Aurukun community so entrenched passive welfare, which has fed chronic addiction-fuelled mental health problems across generations, can be eradicated. Fiona Jose, Cape York Partnership (CYP) General Manager-Cape Operations called for a team government effort to create real welfare-to-work solutions for the community that has suffered 50 years…
Pearson calls on Aurukun community to ‘step up’
Brisbane Times |
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has called on the leaders and families of a remote Cape York community to “step up” to help address problems that forced the closure of its school.
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 promise — a promise that the wrongs of the past will not be repeated. Constitutions are where enduring promises are made. Indigenous constitutional recognition is not just about symbolism. The conversation did not begin with John Howard’s failed proposal for a new constitutional preamble in…
Push to end passive indigenous welfare delivers results
The Australian |
Cape York leader Noel Pearson’s drive to turn communities away from passive welfare reliance has showed results, with a major review coming down in favour of the system that underpins the “indigenous empowerment” policy shift being considered by the Turnbull government.
Natalie Walker: Dreaming big and chasing dreams: helping Indigenous mothers finish school
The Guardian |
Approximately 90% of Indigenous teenage mums won’t finish school, but there is a way for them to realise their dreams.
Fiona Jose: Smallbone report: Past wrongs to blame for Aurukun crisis
Courier Mail |
AURUKUN is again in the news and though the news is not new, it is not good.