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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…

Noel Pearson: Over 200 Years Without a Place – The Australian

Australia has never been clear about the place of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the nation. It was not clear on the founding of the colonies in Australia. There…

More Uncle Toms Than Meet the Eye – The Australian

A deal was done behind closed doors with the Howard Government. The deal shafted the poor black fellas from the remote communities of central, northern and western Australia. The axe…

Noel Pearson: Eidos Institute Board

On Tuesday the 17th July 2007, The Eidos Institute Board and hosted a breakfast with Noel Pearson, an influential Aboriginal Australian lawyer, land rights activist and founder of the Cape…

Brough backs Pearson’s welfare overhaul call

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

Pearson takes anti-handout campaign to Govt

Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has urged the Federal Government to consider a radical overhaul of Indigenous welfare. Mr Pearson, the director of the Cape York Land Council, has handed a…

Pearson Explains Plan to Overhaul Aboriginal Welfare

North Queensland Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has been a man on a mission for the past seven years, trying to find a way to break the vicious cycle of despair,…

Noel Pearson: A Structure for Empowerment – The Australian

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,…

Groups hail land use agreement in Cape York

Indigenous groups have welcomed a historic agreement for land use on Queensland’s vast Cape York Peninsula. Laws introduced into State Parliament today will give Indigenous people joint management of national…

More certainty for Cape York land rights

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….

White guilt, victimhood and the quest for a radical centre

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…

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