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Part 2. A Selection of Media Reports about Noel Pearson

• 2022

• Millions flow to Noel Pearson's education venture against department advice - - the Sydney Morning Herald 19th February 2022



• 2021

• Noel Pearson raises the stakes on 'voice' - - the Australian 18th March 2021


• Constitutional recognition will make this nation whole - - the Australian 18th March 2021



• 2018

• Pearson's Own 'Business Model' is the Problem- by Andrew Bolt - the Herald-Sun 11th March 2018


• Noel Pearson: we must be actors in our own destiny - - the Australian 17th February 2018



• 2017

• Mayor gave $1.3m deal to quarry linked to his cousins, Noel and Gerhardt Pearson - Guardian 6th January 2017


• Q&A: Noel Pearson critical of response to Aboriginal Recognition Plan - the Australian 30th May 2017


• Coalition split on Uluru Statement and indigenous advisory body - the Australian 30th May 2017


• Resistance to full embrace jars 25 years after Mabo - by Noel Pearson the Australian 3rd June 2017


• Noel Pearson alleged to have unleashed foul-mouthed tirade at Prime Minister over Indigenous - the ABC 5th June 2017


• Malcolm Turnbull 'lying' on indigenous voice plan: Pearson - the Age 6th November 2017


• Noel Pearson says Turnbull lying over Indigenous voice to parliament - Guardian 6th November 2017



• 2016

• 'I was 35 and made the wrong turn' - Noel Pearson reveals his greatest regret - Sydney Morning Herald 28th January, 2016


• Noel Pearson says 1788 is 'one of three' defining moments for Australia - SBS 27th Januray 2016


• Indigenous drive at 'dead end': Warren Mundine and Noel Pearson - The Australian 28th January 2016


• Noel Pearson's hunt for the 'radical centre' is doomed - the Age 18th February 2016


• Tree clearing: Indigenous leader Noel Pearson hits out at changes to Queensland's Native Vegetation Act - ABC News 9th March 2016


• Tree-clearing laws unfair for Aborigines, says land council - the Australian 4th May 2016


• Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous community - the Guardian 10th May 2016


• Noel Pearson's advice 'ignored' before Aurukun attack - the Australian 14th May 2016


• Aurukun teachers evacuated for six weeks after burglary attempts - the Guardian 25th May 2016


• Aurukun a 'failed social experiment', Queensland federal MP Warren Entsch says - ABC News 26th May 2016


• Aurukun strife shows failure of our leaders - the Courier Mail 27th May 2016


• Aurukun: Noel Pearson's syllabus partly to blame for school crisis, says former principal - the Guardian 27th May 2016


• Aurukun blame turns onto Noel Pearson welfare reforms - the Australian 28th May 2016


• Policing review needed in Aurukun; school should not be sole focus, Noel Pearson says - the ABC 28th May 2016


• Noel Pearson's program part of problem in Aurukun, Indigenous educator Chris Sarra says - ABC News 29th May 2016


• Aurukun: pressure mounts for overhaul of Noel Pearson reforms - the Guardian 9th June 2016


• Aurukun review: children learn more about US than Australia and Indigenous culture - the Guardian 5th July 2016


• Aurukun school review partly incorrect and inaccurate, Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says - ABC News 5th July 2016


• Noel Pearson under fire from all sides over Aurukun school experiment - the Guardian 7th July 2016


• What's being done to save Cape York's troubled communities? - the Courier Mail 20th July 2016


• Noel Pearson on recognition: no 'radical' shift in position - the Australian 3rd August 2016


• Noel Pearson removes teaching curriculum from Aurukun - the Australian 10th November 2016


• Noel Pearson lambasts 'racist' ABC at Paul Keating biography launch in Sydney - the Age 21st November 2016


• Noel Pearson says ABC is a racist broadcaster 'willing the wretched to fail' - the Guardian 21st November 2016


• Pearson: ABC is a spittoon of racism - the Daily Telegraph 22nd November 2016


• Rundle: Noel Pearson's Aboriginal responsibility act is wearing a bit thin - Crikey 22nd November 2016


• Noel Pearson's big questions on covering indigenous issues - the Australian 22nd November 2016


• Racist ABC eager for us to live in misery, says Noel Pearson - the Australian 22nd November 2016


• Noel Pearson seeks a meeting with ABC - the Australian 28th November 2016


• Pearson rejects claims of bullying, maladministration - AM on ABC Radio 28th November 2016


• Noel Pearson a false prophet the Murdoch press blindly follows - Australian Finacial Review 25th November 2016


• Noel Pearson denies abusing Education Minister Kate Jones - Brisbane Times 28th November 2016


• 'Bucket of shit': Noel Pearson abuse claims 'straining' relationship with Queensland Government - ABC News 28th November 2016


• ABC revived Kate Jones abuse claim as payback, says Noel Pearson - the Australian 29th November 2016


• Noel Pearson praises Pauline Hanson's defence of Julian Assange - the Australian 29th November 2016



• 2015

• Seven Years Of Noel Pearson Trials Have Led Aurukun To The Bottom Of the National Heap - New Matilda 24th July 2015



• 2014

• Columnist For The Australian Tells Cabinet Minister To 'F*ck Off' - New Matilda 8th August 2014


• Dropping bombs and stoking feuds: the other side of Noel Pearson - Sydney Morning Herald 18th August 2014


• Pearson's grip on Indigenous policy is not backed by evidence - by Marcus Waters - The Conversation 20th August 2014


• Pearson's critics enjoying 'national sport' - by Rachel Perkins - Sydney Morning Herald 27th August 2014


• He's Not the Messiah. He's a Very Haughty Boy - New Matilda 3rd September 2014


• Noel Pearson for PM? Not so fast - Canberra Times 6th October 2014


• Is Rachel Perkins right to dismiss Noel Pearson's critics? - National Indigenous Times 10th September 2014


• Unfinished business : Chutzpah and retreats in perfecting the basis of our citizenship by Jon Altmann - Australian Review of Books November 2014


• Noel Pearson is a great orator but he's essentially a leader without followers in Aboriginal world - Canberra Times 7th November 2014


• Indigenous leader Noel Pearson abused by elders during Brisbane speech - ABC News 7th November 2014


• Noel Pearson - I have another dream: Thankfully its an hour shorter New Matilda 10th November 2014


• A Stake in the Game by Timothy Neale - The Sydney Review of Books 16th November 2014


• Pearson, Langton, Mundine are not our leaders by Dr Woolombi Waters - The Stringer 15th November 2014


• Noel Pearson and Warren Mundine effigies burned in Indigenous G20 rally - The Guardian 16th November 2014



• 2013

• Why concerns over funding Cape York welfare trial are valid - Crikey 2nd April, 2013


• Liberation Through Acquisition: A latter-day black Gordon Gecko preaching "Greed is Good" - Tracker Magazine, April 2013


• Qld backflips on Cape York welfare reform - ABC 28th March, 2013


• Evidently: Searching for the 'real' economy on Cape York - by Prof. Jon Altman Tracker Magazine 5th June, 2013


• Rundle: anatomy of a beat-up on Aboriginal literacy - Crikey 11th July, 2014


• Evaluation of the Cape York Welfare Reform trial by by Ilan Katz and Margaret Raven - Indigenous Law BulletinAugust 2013



• 2012

• QLD:Troubled Qld indigenous school reopens - AAP - Monday, 23rd January 2012


• School open after fraud claims - The Australian 24 January 2012


• Abbott holds race key: Pearson - The Australian 10th February 2012


• Pearson family `has record of bullying' - The Australian 23rd February 2012


• QLD:Report author Pitt had 'vested interests' AAP - 24th February 2012


• Pearson yet to learn lessons of leadership - by Tony Koch - Weekend Australian - Saturday, 28th April 2012


• Why I continue to be inspired by Pearson - by Marcia Langton - Weekend Australian 5th May, 2012


• QLD:Indigenous funding wasted, mayors say - AAP - Monday, May 7, 2012


• Differences of opinion far from searing attack - Weekend Australian 12th May, 2012


• Activist slams Cape reformer - Courier Mail - 28 May 2012


• Forrest pledged $3m to help Pearson take over Djarragun College - The Australian 30th May 2012


• Djarragun fund error balloons - The Australian 31st May 2012


• Top teacher stood down over 'ghosts' - Courier Mail - 9th June 2012


• Pearson's plea over $5.5m bill rejected - The Australian 25th June 2012


• Pearson denies phantom students cost millions - The Australian 26th June 2012


• Probity of Pearson project under review - The Australian 17th July 2012


• Pearson fights off cancer scare - The Australian 6th August 2012


• Cape Tribulations: Noel Pearson and the Welfare Reform Trial - The Monthly August 2012


• Cape Crusader - Sydney Morning Herald - 25th August 2012


• Quieter, greyer, but unbowed: Pearson fights on - Weekend Australian - 25th August 2012


• The rise (and fall?) of Pearson, a 'product of the times' - Crikey - 30th August 2012


• Cape trial extended - Cairns Post - 1st September, 2012


• New MP backs Pearson model - The Australian 20th September 2012


• Pearson joins chorus of support for Anderson - Weekend Australian 3rd November 2012


• Cape York Welfare Reform Evaluation - Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 2012



• 2011

• Langton backs Pearson referendum model - the Australian 27th January 2011


• State student turnout fails to make the grade - Courier Mail - Saturday, 19th February 2011


• Gary Johns's new book, Noel Pearson, The Oz and sonderweg - Crikey - 29th April 2011


• Pearson backs Keating on native title reverse onus - Weekend Australian 4th June 2011


• School sacks staff to pay back money for phantom students - The Australian 8th June 2011


• College offered finance lifeline - Cairns Post - Tuesday, 28th June 2011


• Noel Pearson to take control of school - AAP - Tuesday, 12th July 2011


• Noel Pearson's policies embraced by white Australia, but how effective are they? - The Conversation 9th August, 2011


• Djarragun `rife with nepotism' - The Australian 22nd August 2011


• Crime check charges - The Australian 23rd August 2011


• Greens confront traditional owners on coalmine plan - The Australian 2nd September 2011


• Indigenous insiders chart an end to victimhood - by Nicholas Rothwell - The Australian 3rd September 2008


• Dodson lets fly at fellow leaders - by Natasha Robinson The Australian 12th December 2008


• Cape leader has lifeline for indigenous college - The Australian 12th September 2011


• Djarragun College concerns - Cairns Post - 16th September, 2011


• $25,000 for unfair dismissal - Cairns Post - 28th September, 2011


• Symbolism is not enough: Pearson - Age - 10th October 2011


• Abbott may be best hope on hot issue . . . on Noel time - Age - 17th October 2011


• QLD:LNP to axe Qld Wild Rivers declarations - AAP - Friday, November 4, 2011


• Wild Rivers Act crushes Aborigines: Pearson - Weekend Australian Saturday, November 5, 2011


• Pearson tagged `fly-in, fly-out' - The Australian 16th November 2011


• Police weigh charges on Djarragun `fraud' - The Australian 26th December 2011


• Enrolment failures attended to, Djarragun insists - The Australian 27th December 2011



• 2010

• Pearson hits back over ceremony attack - Weekend Australian - Saturday, 20th March 2010


• Coalition leads way on land rights, says Pearson - The Australian - Wednesday, 31st March 2010


• Welfare reform is working, Pearson insists - AAP - Wednesday, 14th April 2010


• Man of his people - Sunday Age - 6th June 2010


• Telling whites what they want to hear: Chris Graham on the trouble with Noel Pearson - OVERLAND 200 4 September 2010


• Noel Pearson rings up a wrong number - Sydney Morning Herald - 8th September 2010


• Right crucial to Aboriginal reforms - Noel Pearson The Australian - 11th September 2010


• Noel Pearson not our leader, say wild river men - Age- 30th September 2010


• Yanner to fight for Wild Rivers - Courier Mail - Thursday, 7th October 2010


• Yanner calls for Pearson's portfolio - Courier Mail - Wednesday, 20th October 2010



• 2009

• Pearson launches fight against truancy - by Patricia Karvelas and Paul Toohey, Weekend Australian February 21, 2009


• Pearson discusses wild rivers laws - the ABC 7.30 Report 15th July 2009


• The boy from Hope Vale - by Jon altman Australian Book Review July - August, 2009


• Review: Noel Pearson's Radical Hope - Crikey - 23rd October 2009



• 2008

• Forget a treaty, say Pearson, Yunupingu - By Natasha Robinson and Patricia Karvelas - the Australian 25th April 2008


• Ban Aboriginal dole until 21, Noel Pearson pleads - by Patricia Karvelas and Padraic Murphy - the Australian 22nd August 2008



• 2007

• Moved by Pearson's passion - Weekend Australian 23rd June 2007


• NT `martial law' A way to save the children - Gold Coast Bulletin 23rd June 2007


• Pearson sparked a revolution that emboldened PM to act - Sun-Herald 24th June 2007


• ALP backs `tough love' approach - The Australian 26th June 2007


• Critics want failure: Pearson - The Australian 27th June 2007


• Treasury chief attacks welfare - Canberra Times 27th June 2007


• Pearson in `breach of protocol' - Weekend Australian 30th June 2007


• Priority is people, not land: Pearson - Weekend Australian 7th July 2007


• Noel Pearson "drunk with power", says NSW Land Council leader - AAP 9th July 2007


• Aboriginal leaders join attacks on Pearson - The Australian 12th July 2007


• Ignored: lessons learnt on the ground - Sydney Morning Herald 16th July 2007


• Politics blamed for hasty embrace of Pearson plan - Sydney Morning Herald 16th July 2007


• Pearson hails most significant reform since war - The Australian 19th July 2007


• Pearson labelled arrogant and ignorant by TV boss - AAP 31st July 2007


• Indigenous leader signs 99-year land lease to Govt by Murray McLaughlin - ABC 7.30 Report - transcribed 20th August 2007


• Dodson attacks government's intervention in NT - AAP - Wednesday, September 12, 2007


• Yunupingu to hand over traditional land in 99-year lease - AAP- Wednesday, September 19, 2007


• Galarrwuy Yunupingu considering setting up new elders' group - AAP - Thursday, September 20, 2007


• Labor accused of selling Cape down the river - by Tony Koch - The Australian 14th November 2007


• Noel Pearson's statement on Kevin Rudd - the Australian 23rd November 2007


• Pearson accuses Labor of betrayal - the Weekend Australian 24th November 2007


• Indigenous leaders welcome defeat of Howard and Brough - AAP - 25th November, 2007


• Queensland to roll out indigenous welfare reform trial - AAP - 21st December, 2007



• 2006

• Shift in the right direction - the Australian18th March 2006



• 2005

• Pearson named Australian of the Year - the Australian - 15th January 2005


• Indigenous Affairs ministry not the answer, Pearson says - ABC Radio 6th June 2005


• Costello embraces Pearson's radical reforms- By Michael Gordon - the Age 22nd July 2005


• Clash of cultures: Aboriginal leader rejects Pearson as 'new messiah' - the Age -30th July 2005


• Pearson calls for end to passive welfare - ABCTV 7.30 Report 14th November 2005


• How Peter Costello became a Cape crusader - the Age - 6th December 2005



• 2004

• Mike Mansell letter to editor - the Australian - 17th June 2004



• 2001

• Aboriginal leader pushes anti-welfare agenda By Mike Head - World Socialist Web Site 25 July 2001