MEDIA

Cape York leader Noel Pearson has criticised the progressive side of politics and the Aboriginal “industry” as being massive with too much of the $30 billion-plus spent annually going on costs and not helping indigenous people. Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership Mr Pearson founded had an “empowerment agenda” to promote economic and social development in the region and…

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has invited Aboriginal groups from around the country to submit proposals to regain control of their land, service delivery and government funding.

Enshrining an indigenous advisory body in the constitution was a “real chance” and “not really any more a question of whether but how”, Cape York leader Noel Pearson has declared.

A referendum to give Indigenous people more power to run their own affairs is a “life and death matter”, Indigenous leaders say.

Establishing a “First Nations Voice” in the constitution would lead to treaty negotiations to address “fundamental questions” about the way Australia was settled, Noel Pearson has declared.

The next federal election will be fought with fairness in one corner and animal spirits in the other. Changing the rules of industrial combat with red gloves, and deregulating the rules with the blue. Hospitals and schools v banks and private equity.

The Australian parliament is about to make a huge mistake with the imminent passage of so-called foreign interference laws. These laws will have four bad effects.

Members of an Aboriginal community on Cape York Peninsula are calling for their income management trial to continue, saying their town has changed for the better.

Nine months after the Prime Minister’s rejection of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, I remain hopeful constitutional recognition can still be achieved.

In July 2018 the opposition Australian Labor Party signalled that it would soften its public push for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations “Voice to Parliament”, opting instead for less-formal legislative recognition — a decision that sparked controversy and renewed debate over whether symbolic gestures will outweigh real structural change.

A federal parliamentary committee will “feed the ball into the scrum” with its first report on constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples at the end of the month, according to one of its chairmen.

In a wide-ranging interview on NITV’s Living Black, Cape York leader Noel Pearson has said that it was the failure of the conservatives and internal dynamics of the federal government that led to the rejection of the Uluru Statement last year.