Noel Pearson is an influential Aboriginal Australian lawyer, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York. In the early part of his career Pearson was an advocate for land rights, but at the end of the 1990s he substantially shifted focus.

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  • Noel Pearson is an influential Aboriginal Australian lawyer, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York. In the early part of his career Pearson was an advocate for land rights, but at the end of the 1990s he substantially shifted focus. Pearson has since then strongly argued that Indigenous policy needs to change direction, notably in relation to welfare, substance abuse, child protection, and economic development. Pearson criticises approaches to these problems which, while claiming to be "progressive," in his opinion merely keep Indigenous people dependent on welfare and out of the "real economy. " He outlined this position in 2000 in his speech, The light on the hill. In April 2009 he resigned as Director of the Cape York Institute to again turn his focus to land rights issues.
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  • Indigenous Australian lawyer and activist
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  • Noel Pearson is an influential Aboriginal Australian lawyer, land rights activist and founder of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York. In the early part of his career Pearson was an advocate for land rights, but at the end of the 1990s he substantially shifted focus.
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