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Noel Pearson
My current role
Team Leader, Cape York Partnerships; CEO Cape York Institute
Region
Queensland - Cape YorkBiography
Noel Pearson was born in Cooktown and grew up at Hope Vale, a Lutheran Mission in the southeast Cape York Peninsula area. He is a history and law graduate from the University of Sydney. He has devoted his life to the creation and development of Cape York Land Council and other Indigenous organisations.
Noel Pearson's current work with Cape York Partnerships and the Cape York Institute draws widely on his thoughts on breaking down 'passive welfare dependency' amongst Cape York Aboriginal people, by reinstating the rights of Aboriginal people to take responsibility for their lives. Descriptions of these ideas can be found in his recent monograph "Our Right to Take Responsibility" (self-published, 2000), as well as his "Light on the Hill Ben Chifley Memorial Lecture" (Bathurst, 2000) and his "Charles Perkins Memorial Oration" (Sydney University, 2001).
| Contact | : | Noel Pearson |
| : | info@cyi.org.au | |
| WWW | : | http://www.cyi.org.au |