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.
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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.
Andrew Bartlett: Time for Howard’s cowboys to listen to the experts
It’s past time to get the Aboriginal debate focused on the practicalities of implementation and resourcing, and to allow some opportunity for the people with expertise and experience with the issues to be heard, writes Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett.
Shhhh! Noel Pearson’s just living the dream
Noel Pearson is right about one thing – much of the criticism of the NT military occupation (and has it got a handy name yet – I’d suggest Operation Deja Vu) is not only beside the point, but arises from an exhausted politics of left and right that doesn’t effectively translate to this issue.
Will the bureaucrats be happy to let Aboriginal Australia take over?
The irony of the PM’s rescue mission of Aboriginal Australia hasn’t gone unnoticed. Here’s a policy of helping a disadvantaged group to overcome a major social ill by using the resources and the personnel of the central government. No wonder Labor is not opposing it. It’s a good socialist policy.
Howard’s Aboriginal intervention ‘a long time coming’
It’s been a long time coming, but John Howard finally stepped up on the Aboriginal crisis. It’s a national scandal and disgrace, but let’s face it, the whole sorry mess has been politicised from day one, writes John Pasquarelli.
Territory alcohol blame game a little shy of facts
The blame game about grog on Aboriginal communities is deeply offensive to the 100-plus towns, town camps and communities that have used the law to try and ban alcohol.
The Economy: Radical reform a red-hot go to end child abuse
This is a watershed. No one can predict the outcome, but failure to act would have been a national disgrace. Indeed, one cannot help observing that the problems in remote Aboriginal townships have been known about for decades — one had only to visit them to see.
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.