Noel Pearson’s new essay could have given been a compelling argument for a new education approach. Instead, he indulged himself in a new airing of old obsessions.
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Guy Rundle: Review: Noel Pearson’s Radical Hope
Noel Pearson is ‘our’ Obama? Albrechtsen’s swatch politics
Janet Albrechtsen dubbed Indigenous leader Noel Pearson as Australia’s answer to Barack Obama. Is that because they’re both, um, black? asks Guy Rundle.
Illiterate, but formal: small miracle of democracy blooms in FNQ
In Queensland’s election, somehow polling booths that should represent some of the country’s least literate voters returned informal vote numbers that were among the country’s lowest. What’s going on?
Howard hits the headlines again
Former PM John Howard is back in the media again, thanks to Paul Kelly’s new book. So what have we learnt? Crikey takes a look at the revelations from Children Overboard to Hating Peter Costello.
Labor cannot fail Indigenous Australia again
Generally, Labor may have been Aboriginal Australia’s party of choice, but recent challenges with the Coalition implemented NT Intervention highlight Labor’s need to re-engage with Indigenous leadership again, writes The Australian.
How Pearson tried to save Howard
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson sent a letter to then-PM John Howard in 2007 outlining a potential re-election strategy, a new book has revealed, shedding new light on Howard’s renewed interest in reconciliation at the time.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Climate change and Crikey editorials
Crikey readers weigh in on CPRS, climate change, the coalition’s carbon policy proposal, gay marriage statistics and more.
Wild Rivers get murkier and murkier
Even the keywords “Crosby-Textor” have had an airing as the Wilderness Society and indigenous groups battle over Queensland’s Wild Rivers Act.
Time to start making sense, Galarrwuy
Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu has dumped a bucket on the NT intervention — a policy that only two years ago had his support Chris Graham is confused.
More to Wild Rivers than meets the eye
The Noel Pearson-Tania Major anti-Wild Rivers campaign on Cape York has just reached new depths, but at least the tactics and motivations are becoming more transparent, writes Tim Seelig.
Pearson: Wild Rivers run with the stink of lobbyists
The handling of the Wild Rivers process indicates a complete disequilibrium in power, writes Noel Pearson. The indigenous community must have equal access to government.
Noel Pearson: impassioned, nasty, intellectual, inspired
Noel Pearson’s collection of writing in Up from the Mission has provoked me, deepened my understanding of contemporary Aboriginal realities and confirmed my opinion of his import, says Eve Vincent.
Mungo MacCallum: Calling for a government restructure to address Aboriginal issues
The one size fits all approach of the intervention is plainly inappropriate to societies as diverse as Indigenous Australia, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Counterpoint: Noel Pearson’s resignation
Alex Mitchell says Pearson is a tragic loss. Chris Graham thinks his resignation is the height of hypocrisy.
Mythbusters: ten sorry excuses exploded
There’s nothing like a little ‘sorry’ debate to get white Australia all red and puffy. Here’s a punter’s guide to exploding 10 of the more virulent myths surrounding a national apology to members of the Stolen Generations, writes Chris Graham.
Time to bring the funny, Kev
I’m starting to get a little nervous about Kevin Rudd and his new government. They’ve not done one goddamn thing to help out my fellow comedians and me, writes Adam Rozenbachs.
Time for Noel Pearson to tone down the rhetoric
Noel Pearson is one of Australia’s most intelligent, articulate and thoughtful Aboriginal leaders but surely it’s time he started to reflect on what he’s been saying and doing lately, writes Alex Mitchell.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
The Aurukun case … a new party in the ACT … NSW public transport … World Youth Day and teh Catholic Church … the Liberal Party’s future …
National Indigenous Council knackered?
New Year’s Eve 2007 marks the end of the term of the current membership of the Howard Government’s hand-picked National Indigenous Council. This fortuitous piece of timing may allow the Rudd government to finesse the NIC out of business, writes Graham Ring.
Jon Altman: in the name of the market?
The last fifteen years have seen rapid growth in the Australian economy that has thrown into stark relief the relative poverty and fundamentally different living conditions of many Indigenous Australians. Nowhere is this difference more apparent than in the Northern Territory, where over 80 per cent of the Indigenous population of 66 600 live in remote situations, primarily on Aboriginal-owned land, writes Jon Altman.
Club Yunupingu: Brough’s land deal of last resort
The Black Prince of north east Arnhem Land and long time chairman of the Northern Land Council Galarrwuy Yunupingu, has set himself up at loggerheads with Aboriginal leaders throughout Australia with the signing yesterday of a memorandum of understanding with Indigenous Affairs minister Mal Brough.
If Pearson had the guts he’d turn against the Intervention too
Judging by the numerous reports and excerpts of Noel Pearson’s speech at the Melbourne Writers Festival, it would seem that Pearson is already preparing his excuses for the failure of the “national emergency,” writes Guy Rundle.
Pearson’s strident criticism of “naysayers” doesn’t help
It was with increasing anger that I watched the Lateline interview with Noel Pearson in which he attacked “naysayers” who are criticising those aspects of the Federal Government’s Northern Territory intervention operation that relate to the compulsory acquisition of leasehold title over land and the scrapping of the permit system, writes Northern Territory MP Marion Scrymgour.
Noel Pearson doesn’t have a clue
Better write nothing and have people question your intelligence than blog away and remove all doubt, might be the paraphrase occasioned by Noel Pearson’s blog, writes Guy Rundle.
Aboriginal futures still struggling to escape the past
Crikey / Guy Rundle / Monday, 17 December 2007
In the wake of the Aurukun case, everyone is trying to claim that initiative X, Y or Z represents a “revolution” in policy, and a break with old tired ways of the past etc etc. But the trouble with all these breaks with the past is that they are simply continuing it in different forms, writes Guy Rundle.