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Moves towards indigenous constitutional recognition have reached a damaging impasse, with Malcolm Turnbull warning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders they need to do more to get into parliament and Cape York leader Noel Pearson branding the Prime Minister a “liar” who had withdrawn his support for a key proposal.

Australians should know the facts of the Turnbull government’s despicable rejection of the Uluru “statement from the heart” and the Referendum Council’s report on constitutional recognition. First Dog on the Moon nailed the truth: this government was never interested in listening to Indigenous Australians.

The rollout of indigenous leader Noel Pearson’s signature literacy program will be extended after an independent evaluation found it was having a positive effect on the reading and writing skills of ­indigenous students in remote Australia.

The way billions of taxpayer dollars is used for services in Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities would be turned on its head under a plan that has been hailed as the most important policy document put forward in the state since the 1800s.

INDIGENOUS leader Noel Pearson has heralded the awarding of a $4.4?million road contract to a completely indigenous-owned company as a turning point for Aboriginal employment. Cairns construction and civil earthworks business Bama Services has won the contract for the pavement and sealing of the Peninsula Developmental Rd between Laura and Coen in Cape York. The company, part of the Cape…

Key NAPLAN results have plunged in the Aboriginal school on Cape York at the centre of a bitter row between the Queensland government and indigenous leader Noel Pearson, who is championing back-to-basics education reform.

A Guest Lecture to The Cairns Institute One of the greatest productions of the human mind: John Milton’s Paradise Lost An argument by Noel Pearson From the Cape York Institute

The board of Cape York Partnership is pleased to announce the appointment of Fiona Jose as the incoming CEO. She will succeed current CEO, Duncan Murray, at the end of 2017. Cape York Partnership (CYP), founded by Noel Pearson, is widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s leading Indigenous organisations. It includes Cape York Institute, Cape York Leaders Program, Cape York…

Prominent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman Fiona Jose has been appointed the new chief executive of Cape York Partnership.

I come from the region first dub­bed York Cape by James Cook, just before he claimed possession of the eastern seaboard on behalf of the British crown. He did so at Possession Island in the Torres Strait on August 22, 1770. The claimed land he called New South Wales.

Noel Pearson has vowed to “double down” on his signature rollout of Direct Instruction teaching in bush schools as the $23.5 million literacy trial nears its end and thousands of indigenous students who benefited face uncertainty.

When they told Cath Greene about the change to Direct Instruction she was indignant. Everyone who had visited her little school in the red dirt north of Alice Springs seemed to love what she was trying to do with the kids. One of the nation’s top indigenous educators, Chris Sarra, called the classes beautiful.