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Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

• Wild Rivers deal bypassed Aborigines
  11.04.2009
  THE Queensland Government ignored requests to inform Cape York traditional owners about Wild Rivers legislation that will stop the development of Aboriginal land, despite commitments that it would do so before enacting the law. The traditional owners... read more
• Pearson quits institute to fight wild rivers battle
  08.04.2009
  By: Tony Koch, Sarah Elks ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson has resigned as director of the Cape York Institute -- a think tank that has led the national debate on welfare reform and provided educational programs for young people -- to focus on a... read more
• Pearson resigns over `wild rivers' decision
  08.04.2009
  ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson has resigned as a director of the think tank he founded to lead the indigenous responsibilities agenda and declared he would return to his activist roots to campaign for land rights. Mr Pearson's departure as director of... read more
• Pearson's last stand: the rivers run dry
  07.04.2009
  INDIGENOUS leader Noel Pearson has threatened to abandon the campaign against passive welfare, arguing that the Queensland Government's move to lock up vast tracts of Aboriginal land in Cape York would force him ``back to the barricades''. Mr Pearson... read more
• Pearson's last stand: the rivers run dry
  07.04.2009
  INDIGENOUS leader Noel Pearson has threatened to abandon the campaign against passive welfare, arguing that the Queensland Government's move to lock up vast tracts of Aboriginal land in Cape York would force him ``back to the barricades''. Mr Pearson... read more
• Pearson slams Bligh on river `deal'
  04.04.2009
  ABORIGINAL leader Noel Pearson yesterday accused Queensland Premier Anna Bligh of ``urinating on the rights'' of Aboriginal people and treating them ``much worse than even (Joh) Bjelke-Petersen would have done''. Mr Pearson said the Queensland... read more
• Role model Leona to teach kids hope
  07.03.2009
  LEONA Yunkaporta from Cape York carries the weight of a community on her shoulders. Ms Yunkaporta, 20, knows a lot about her people's hopes and dreams, being the niece of one of Aboriginal Australia's most revered members, Francis Yunkaporta, a... read more