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A collaboration between Remote Housing Australia, Cape York Institute and Djarragun College, the EzeBoard House is poised to change housing in remote and regional Australia.  

The federal government is keeping Cape York off a list of potential world heritage sites until it can achieve support for the controversial proposal from Aboriginal landowners.

INDIGENOUS leader Noel Pearson has laid the blame for poor educational standards in Aboriginal Australia at the feet of ”ideology producers” in academia, ”ideology upholders” in the public service and the white middle-class left whose sympathy for the disadvantaged is hurting those they hope to help.

Indigenous campaigner Tania Major has called on the Queensland government to release its correspondence with an environment group before the last election.

The director of the Cape York Institute says paid lobbyists have influenced the Queensland Government’s Wild Rivers legislation in the state’s far north.

The Wilderness Society is used to conducting its own protests and street theatre, but the tables were turned last night when a group of Aboriginal activists from Cape York gatecrashed a fundraising party in Sydney.

Queensland’s Wild Rivers legislation was put together without enough scientific consultation, according to a leading authority on tropical river systems.

Angry Cape York leaders have threatened to ban outsiders from their land if the Queensland government doesn’t wind back its controversial wild rivers policy.

Noel Pearson is accusing the Queensland government of deceiving indigenous people after Premier Anna Bligh banned development around three Cape York rivers.

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he is pleased that welfare reform trials on Cape York appear to be having a positive effect.

Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has joined mining magnate Andrew Forrest in saying red tape is stopping their Indigenous job scheme.

Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has strongly backed businessman Andrew Forrest’s plan to create 50,000 jobs for Indigenous Australians.