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Pearson ‘ecstatic’ about welfare reform results
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he is pleased that welfare reform trials on Cape York appear to be having a positive effect. The Cape York trials were rolled out last…
Bureaucracy stopping Indigenous job scheme: Pearson
Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has joined mining magnate Andrew Forrest in saying red tape is stopping their Indigenous job scheme. Mr Pearson and Mr Forrest co-chair the Australian…
Pearson hails Indigenous jobs scheme
Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has strongly backed businessman Andrew Forrest’s plan to create 50,000 jobs for Indigenous Australians. Australia’s richest man Fortescue Metals boss Mr Forrest yesterday announced…
Qld indigenous reforms about to start
A radical shake-up of Queensland’s indigenous communities will begin next Tuesday, with new welfare and alcohol laws coming into force. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Minister Lindy Nelson-Carr said…
Pearson embraces ‘patriotic’ Indigenous education plan
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has described a new plan to attract top teachers and graduates to Indigenous communities as a “call to patriotic duty”. The proposal, called Teach for Australia,…
Indigenous program to tap top teachers
Top teachers and graduates would be lured to work in disadvantaged indigenous communities under a plan offering performance-linked incentives of up to $50,000 a year. Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson is…
Warring Turnbull and Abbott betray indigenous recognition, says Pearson
Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott used indigenous constitutional recognition as a disposable weapon in their internecine war and had ambitions “only for themselves and not for the country”, Cape York…
Indigenous welfare reform trial in Qld
The Queensland government will trial indigenous welfare reform in four communities from next year, requiring families to meet basic responsibilities in order to receive payments. Premier Anna Bligh and Federal…
Take the children: Pearson
PROMINENT Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson says there should be no “silly hesitation” about removing Aboriginal children from their parents if they are at risk. Mr Pearson said the case of…
Noel Pearson: Reconciliation U-turn Shows Leader’s True Colours – The Australian
PAUL Kelly and Dennis Shanahan reported on the front page of The Australian yesterday that Kevin Rudd will not be pursuing a constitutional referendum on reconciliation if he wins government….
Noel Pearson: Many Paths to Reconciliation – The Australian
JOHN Howard’s election-eve pledge to solve the “unfinished business” of indigenous reconciliation is no less than a bid to make history – for himself and the nation. A road is…
The urgent quest for a radical political centre: Noel Pearson
I HAVE become convinced that the distance between good and bad policies is most often very fine — not poles apart. People from either side of the cultural and political…