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Noel Pearson says Indigenous Australians must not be intimidated by ‘ordinary’ Malcolm Turnbull
A referendum to give Indigenous people more power to run their own affairs is a “life and death matter”, Indigenous leaders say. At the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land,…
Pearson Pushes Constitution-first Line on Indigenous Treaty
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 Cape York…
Australia needs a new deal: fairness and economic growth – Noel Pearson
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…
Turnbull’s foreign interference laws bad for Australian liberties – Noel Pearson
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. First, they will revive…
Calls for decade-long cashless welfare card trial on Cape York Peninsula to continue
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. Hope Vale is one…
Shireen Morris: The Uluru Statement From The Heart: Why I Have Hope
Nine months after the Prime Minister’s rejection of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, I remain hopeful constitutional recognition can still be achieved. The Uluru Statement created a massive political…
Teela Reid: Labor turns down volume on voice that must be heard
I was raised by my single mother and have always been inspired by strong black women. I was reminded of these many formidable Indigenous women who have challenged and encouraged…
Interim report set to test ideas on Recognition
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…
Constitutional Recognition: A Wicked Problem?
Little more than a year after an unprecedented gathering of Indigenous elders and academics, delegates and activists, delivered the Uluru Statement from the Heart — and thereby laying out a new road…
‘Dastardly deeds, betrayal and stalking horses’: Noel Pearson opens up
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…
OPINION: The Government sets the goal posts, only to move them when Indigenous people score
The struggle for rights, even dignity, for Indigenous people in this country could be likened to precariously building a sandcastle in cyclonic conditions. Our government is the tantrum throwing brat…
‘A tectonic shift in justice’: how the Wik people fought the law and won
If you are going to meet Wik people in Aurukun you may well be directed to the mango tree outside an auntie’s house. It was beneath the shade of this…