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Noel Pearson warns RDA changes will embolden bigots
Planned changes to race hate laws will embolden bigots, disempower the vulnerable and set back the cause of reconciliation and closing the gap, the indigenous leader most admired by Prime…
NT Education Minister meets Noel Pearson on tour of Cape York’s remote Indigenous schools
Northern Territory Education Minister Peter Chandler has completed a three-day tour of remote Indigenous schools on Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula. On the final day of his tour, Mr Pearson was…
Written in the stars: Time is right for recognition: Noel Pearson
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…
‘Brother’ shared his dream: Pearson
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,…
Lew Griffiths: Filmmaker who fought for Cape York
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…
Taskforce to transform relations between Indigenous people and state
A plan to transform policymaking on issues affecting Indigenous Australianswas announced on Wednesday, with the move receiving backing from both main political parties. An “empowered communities group”, which will unite…
Noel Pearson: Base Alcohol Curbs on Community Need, Not False Concept of Race – The Australian
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…
Noel Pearson: Next Step is for Australia to Leave Race Behind – The Australian
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…
Call for Cape welfare trial to help reunite families
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…
Welfare tragic for indigenous: Pearson
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson says welfare entitlement has been “a tragic disability” for his people. Mr Pearson has backed comments by indigenous academic Marcia Langton that a sense of entitlement…
Keating and the speech we had to have
TWENTY years ago today, the prime minister of Australia went to Redfern to launch the International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. He gave a speech the like of which…
Fiona Jose Awarded Not for Profit Manager of the Year 2012
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…