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The federal Indigenous Affairs Minister, Mal Brough, says a report recommending a radical overhaul of Indigenous welfare reflects his criticism of the system.

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has urged the Federal Government to consider a radical overhaul of Indigenous welfare.

INDIGENOUS disadvantage stems from dispossession and the historical denial of rights. But poverty is also behavioural. Disengagement from the real economy, passivity and dysfunction are not only symptoms of oppression, they are also unnecessary behaviours that can and must be changed at the same time as we fight for our rights. That is why we pursue welfare reform in Cape…

Indigenous groups have welcomed a historic agreement for land use on Queensland’s vast Cape York Peninsula.

Aborigines will be able to put their struggle for land rights behind them with the creation of a historic land use agreement for Queensland’s Cape York, activist Noel Pearson says.

Back in those days the Boss had been blundering and groping his unwitting way toward the discovery of himself, of his great gift…nursing some blind and undefined compulsion within him like fate or a disease. – Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men (New English Classics, 1946) THE AUDACIOUS IDEA of a Barack Obama presidency emerged when the first-term black Senator from…