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I’ve been to many remote places in Australia, but this is entirely new to me. I don’t know the desert. From the air, the vastness of the rolling dunes, green after the summer rain, is beguiling, as is the mild weather when we land. But I’ve been to enough places in the north of the country to know that come…

The furore that has arisen this week since I launched Damien Freeman and Julian Leeser’s suggested reforms to effect indigenous recognition highlights a poverty of thinking by the key leaders of the discussion. The greatest objection has been to the apparent inconvenience I have created for the guardians of this national conversation, rather than the substance of my argument. I…

Australians would be given the chance to draft a declaration recognising the place of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the nation’s history and culture under a bold plan backed by Noel Pearson.

A successful referendum on indigenous recognition requires a meeting of minds between indigenous people and constitutional conservatives. Equally, it will succeed only if it is championed by both the Left and Right. The expert panel felt that protection against racial discrimination was of utmost importance in addressing the history of racial discrimination indigenous Australians have endured under our Constitution. Yet…

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson is lending his support to the idea of a separate declaration of recognition as a symbolic statement to run alongside any amendments to the Australian constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians.

It is a word that has proved hard to define and impossible to deliver, but it has underpinned almost every substantial discussion about closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage and achieving reconciliation.

The Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has blasted Tony Abbott’s comments that living in a remote community is a lifestyle choice, saying it is a “deranged debate” conducted in a “substandard manner”.

HOW it cares for its staff could be the key to the success of Bama Services – an indigenous maintenance, landscaping, building and civil construction business.

THIRTY-FOUR schools in remote locations across the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland will from next year roll out the “old-school” literacy program trialled in ­Aboriginal communities on Cape York Peninsula.

GOUGH Whitlam was the nation’s greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians, Noel Pearson told a packed Sydney Town Hall today during a special send-off for the former Labor prime minister.

In late August, Noel Pearson, renowned lawyer, academic, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, stepped onto the stage of the Rumbalara Football and Netball Club to deliver the sixth annual Dungala Kaiela Oration.

HAD Galarrwuy Yunupingu and his dilak elders been present at the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, there might have been a scene like this: