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GARY Flandro is the renowned aerospace engineer at the University of Tennessee Space Institute responsible for the extraordinary research he conducted for NASA in 1967 that gave rise to the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft which, over the past 37 years, visited Saturn and Jupiter as part of a grand tour of the solar system. In 2012, Voyager 1…

THE death of Lew Griffiths, who devoted most of his working life to improving the lives of the first Australians on Cape York, should inspire others to realise his dream, according to Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson.

Recently, Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson said of Lew Griffiths, associate and media adviser at Pearson’s Cape York Institute: ”Our whole enterprise leaned hard on this man. It was he who picked us up and reminded us of hope in the uplands … The Australia of which this man dreamed was one in which his sons could feel at peace with…

A plan to transform policymaking on issues affecting Indigenous Australians was announced on Wednesday, with the move receiving backing from both main political parties.

FOLLOWING this week’s news of the High Court’s ruling in the Maloney case upholding alcohol restrictions in Palm Island, I read American historian Peter Mancall’s article, “The Bewitching Tyranny of Custom: The Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America”. As an advocate for alcohol management plans, I was pleased with the ruling. But reading Mancall’s account of how alcohol…

INDIGENOUS affairs in Australia is like a pendulum swinging from one political extreme to the other. This is how our national story in the country’s relationship with and treatment of indigenous people seems to play out. We went from the explicit discrimination, protectionism and exclusion of colonisation and the mission era to the self-determination, separatism and cultural relativism of the…

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he would like to see the Cape York welfare reform trial in far north Queensland play a bigger role in bringing children in state care back to their families. Mr Pearson met Queensland Indigenous Affairs Minister Glen Elmes yesterday to discuss the future of the scheme. The State Government is yet to commit to the…

Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson says welfare entitlement has been “a tragic disability” for his people.

TWENTY years ago today, the prime minister of Australia went to Redfern to launch the International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

The cream of Queensland business enterprise rose to the top on Friday night when the 2012 Management Excellence Award (MEA) winners were announced at a gala function at the Sofitel Hotel in Brisbane. Hosted by the Australian Institute of Management – Qld & NT, the annual Awards acknowledge exceptional managers at all stages of their careers across a broad spectrum of industry….

THE last time Tony Abbott visited Aurukun, a remote indigenous community on the west coast of Cape York, a young and angry girl pulled a kitchen knife on him when he arrived late one morning at her home as volunteer truancy officer to inquire why she wasn’t at school.

Traditional owners in Cape York have staged a protest rally against environmental laws they say prevent economic development in the impoverished region.