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Just 12 months ago half of all Aurukun state school students, from grade 1-10, were reading at kindergarten or pre-kindergarten level.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he will introduce a private member’s bill on Monday to overturn Queensland’s Wild Rivers laws.

The leading opponent of Queensland’s wild rivers laws, Noel Pearson, has accused the state government of “pedalling (sic) misinformation” about potential developments near the rivers.

The Federal Government has commissioned a wide-ranging parliamentary inquiry into Queensland’s controversial Wild Rivers legislation.

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says a new report by the Anglican Church proves the Queensland Government is wrong about the economic impact of its wild rivers laws.

AUSTRALIA is set to go to a referendum before the next election on the constitutional recognition of its first peoples.

Several Aboriginal leaders will meet Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin today to ask her to consider changing the Australian constitution.

THE Cape York leader Noel Pearson, who has been calling on the federal government to ditch the dole for Aborigines aged under 21 for at least three years, has finally found a prospective prime minister who agrees with the idea.

The progressive centre and left are wrong in their approach to indigenous affairs.

THOSE who know Noel Pearson well see traces of the ebullient child he once was in his five-year-old son, Charlie.

When the Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson was in year 5 at Hopevale primary school, in the mid-1970s, a fill-in teacher arrived to take his class.