Former Keating minister Gary Johns has a new book: Aboriginal self-determination: The Whiteman’s dream, but why won’t Noel Pearson promote it?
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Guy Rundle: Rundle’s meaty bites: Gitmo, the Grauniad … Shtupping … Trump-style Oz …
WikiLeaks … all-in-all, quite a set of leaks. A whole new source of secret information? Well, not quite.
Rundle: worse than horse love
There is only one thing worse than be taken as an enemy of News Limited, St Oscar might have written, and that is to be taken pup as their friend.
Crikey Clarifier: wading through the Wild Rivers laws
The Wild Rivers Act has been a contentious topic since it was introduced in 2005. Opposition leader Tony Abbott wants it scrapped, but Queensland premier Anna Bligh is standing firm. Crikey intern Cat Wall gets to the facts.
Pearson: PM Abbott the Right choice for aborigines
History shows that the best person to make progressive policies is a conservative. And Australia’s indigenous people need right-wing leadership — like Tony Abbott and Bob Katter — to bring bipartisan support to resolve the big issues , declares Noel Pearson.
Beyond the despair part II: the communications barrier in black Australia
Yesterday in Crikey, journalism student Clare Negus reported from aboriginal townships in mid-west Western Australia. In the second chapter of a three-part series, Negus looks at the communications barrier.
Mungo MacCallum: Abbott’s cunning stunt is just a distraction
Tony Abbott’s planned private member’s Bill to override Queensland’s Wild Rivers legislation may be, as his opponents claim, a political stunt, but they can hardly deny that it’s a bloody good one.
Abbott braving the rapids over Wild Rivers legislation
Tony Abbott should spend more time pondering the rest of his days in the wilderness — the political wilderness, that is, given he seems no lover of nature based on his Wild Rivers campaign, writes The Wilderness Society’s Dr Tim Seelig.
Pearson: Reconcilation and a republic go hand in hand
It’s not possible to have reconciliation with Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia without also having an Australian republic. A republic would mark reconciliation as a symbolic moment in time, says Noel Pearson.
Guy Rundle: Review: Noel Pearson’s Radical Hope
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.
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.
