Relive Noel Pearson’s provocative Annual Hawke Lecture, Indigenous Australia: the Social and Cultural Predicament, in which he challenged governments to urgently re-think Indigenous policies. With particular reference to his people in Cape York Peninsula he described how welfare-led policies were shaping the cultural, social and economic predicament of indigenous Australia. Discover why he believed the ‘cultural left’ had unwittingly prevented effective social policy reform.
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