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Direct Instruction works wonders in Northern Territory schools
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…
Pearson: Queensland schools prepare kids for jail
Queensland schools are preparing young people for jail, a prominent Indigenous leader says. Noel Pearson slammed the state schooling system in Queensland on Thursday, claiming it did not teach children…
Noel Pearson calls for republic delay until Indigenous vote can be held
Constitutional recognition of Australia’s original inhabitants needed to come before referendums on other issues were held, Indigenous leader Noel Pearson argued on Thursday. Mr Pearson, a member of the expert…
Q&A: Live from Garma Festival
On the panel: Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion; Professor of Indigenous Studies Marcia Langton; Founder, Cape York partnership Noel Pearson; Garma Festival director Denise Bowden; Yothu Yindi Foundation board member…
The ‘life school’ helping Indigenous teenage mums kick drugs and alcohol
Only 62 per cent of Indigenous girls on Cape York graduate high school, and it is even harder to finish when you fall pregnant. Many teenage mums are desperate to…
Shireen Morris, Noel Pearson: Indigenous voice ideal option for constitutional change
The Referendum Council’s two simple recommendations this week break the impasse presented by previous reports on recognition of indigenous Australians. The report identifies a single proposition that can be guided…
Recognition of our First Peoples is now closer than ever: Mark Leibler
It was in the final days of John Howard’s time as prime minister that the current discussion around constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was ignited. Speaking…
Uluru Statement ‘not contentious’ and should be heeded, human rights bodies urge
Australia’s nine major human rights bodies have rebuffed the Turnbull government over its sceptical reception of the Uluru Statement, strongly backing the proposal to enshrine a “First Nations Voice” in…
Response to Karen Middleton in The Saturday Paper ‘The Making of the Uluru Statement’, 3 June 2017
Karen Middleton’s article in The Saturday Paper on 3 June 2017 is full of errors. The online version has been amended, confirming these errors. Other errors still remain. Firstly, Middleton…
Resistance to full embrace jars 25 years after Mabo
Today it is 25 years since the High Court of Australia ruled in favour of Eddie Mabo and his Meriam people in rejecting the old fiction that Australia was terra…
Megan Davis, Noel Pearson, Pat Anderson: Give us space to honour the past and embrace the future
Soon Australians will be able to consider the Referendum Council’s report, the culmination of almost two years of work on what form constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders…
Mabo lawyer Bryan Keon-Cohen urges ‘gutless politicians’ to support Uluru decision
One of the key lawyers in the Mabo case, Bryan Keon-Cohen, has described the proposal to enshrine an Indigenous voice in the constitution as modest and conservative, and challenged “gutless…