This collection of critical media coverage reveals an uglier side of the Noel Pearson phenomenon that most of his white supporters choose to ignore.
These negative reports perhaps explains why the majority of Aboriginal people are not supportive of him..
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* Noel Pearson complains to CCC over Aboriginal Academy audit release - ABC news 16th December 2016 |
* Release of schools audit angers Noel Pearson - the Australian15th December 2016 |
* Pauline Hanson: the patriot for indigenous rights - by Noel Pearson - the Caily Telegraph 29th November 2016 |
* ABC revived Kate Jones abuse claim as payback, says Noel Pearson - the Australian 29th November 2016 |
* 'Bucket of shit': Noel Pearson abuse claims 'straining' relationship with Queensland Government - ABC News 28th November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson denies abusing Education Minister Kate Jones - Brisbane Times 28th November 2016 |
* Pearson rejects claims of bullying, maladministration - AM on ABC Radio 28th November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson seeks a meeting with ABC - the Australian 28th November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson a false prophet the Murdoch press blindly follows - Australian Finacial Review 25th November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson and white Masochism - the Conversation 23rd November 2016 |
* Racist ABC eager for us to live in misery, says Noel Pearson - the Australian 22nd November 2016 |
* Rundle: Noel Pearson's Aboriginal responsibility act is wearing a bit thin - Crikey 22nd November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson says ABC is a racist broadcaster 'willing the wretched to fail' - the Guardian 21st November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson lambasts 'racist' ABC at Paul Keating biography launch in Sydney - the Age 21st November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools involved in 'high risk' business practices, secret audit reveals - 7.30 Report - 11th November 2016 |
* Noel Pearson removes teaching curriculum from Aurukun - the Australian 10th November 2016 |
* Bushland threatened by Noel Pearson's tree-clearing crusade - Crikey 12th August 2016 |
* What's being done to save Cape York's troubled communities? - the Courier Mail20th July 2016 |
* Noel Pearson under fire from all sides over Aurukun school experiment - the Guardian7th July 2016 |
* Aurukun school review partly incorrect and inaccurate, Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says - ABC News 5th July 2016 |
* Cape York Academy to get financial audit - the Australian 5th July 2016 |
* Aurukun review: children learn more about US than Australia and Indigenous culture - the Guardian5th July 2016 |
* Aurukun: pressure mounts for overhaul of Noel Pearson reforms - the Guardian9th June 2016 |
* Noel Pearson's program part of problem in Aurukun, Indigenous educator Chris Sarra says - ABC News 29th May 2016 |
* Aurukun blame turns onto Noel Pearson welfare reforms - the Australian 28th May 2016 |
* Pearson stands by Aurukun model - the Australian 28th May 2016 |
* Aurukun: Noel Pearson 'astounded' by critics of education model - the Brisbane Times 27th May 2016 |
* Pearson Cops Aurukun Heat - the Corier Mail 28th May 2016 |
* Aurukun: Noel Pearson's syllabus partly to blame for school crisis, says former principal - the Guardian 27th May 2016 |
* Aurukun a 'failed social experiment', Queensland federal MP Warren Entsch says - ABC News 26th May 2016 |
* Aurukun teachers evacuated for six weeks after burglary attempts - the Guardian 25th May 2016 |
* Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous community - the Guardian 10th May 2016 |
* Seven Years Of Noel Pearson Trials Have Led Aurukun To The Bottom Of the National Heap - by Amy McQuireNew Matilda July 24, 2015 |
* Noel Pearson and Warren Mundine effigies burned in Indigenous G20 rally - The Guardian 16th 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 - I have another dream: Thankfully its an hour shorter New Matilda 10th November 2014 |
* Indigenous leader Noel Pearson abused by elders during Brisbane speech- ABC News 7th November 2014 |
* Noel Pearson is a great orator but he's essentially a leader without followers in Aboriginal world - Canberra Times 7th November 2014 |
* Is Rachel Perkins right to dismiss Noel Pearson's critics? - National Indigenous Times 10th September 2014 |
* Noel Pearson for PM? Not so fast- Canberra Times 6th September 2014 |
* He's Not the Messiah. He's a Very Haughty Boy - New Matilda 3rd September 2014 |
* Pearson's grip on Indigenous policy is not backed by evidence - by Marcus Waters - The Conversation 20th August 2014 |
* Dropping bombs and stoking feuds: the other side of Noel Pearson - Sydney Morning Herald 18th August 2014 |
* Columnist For The Australian Tells Cabinet Minister To 'F*ck Off' - New Matilda 8th August 2014 |
* Rundle: anatomy of a beat-up on Aboriginal literacy - Crikey 11th July, 2014 |
* Evidently: Searching for the 'real' economy on Cape York - by Prof. Jon Altman Tracker Magazine 5th June, 2013 |
* Qld backflips on Cape York welfare reform - ABC 28th March, 2013 |
* Liberation Through Acquisition: A latter-day black Gordon Gecko preaching "Greed is Good" - Tracker Magazine, April 2013 |
* Why concerns over funding Cape York welfare trial are valid - Crikey 2nd April, 2013 |
* Qld backflips on Cape York welfare reform - ABC news 28th March 2013 |
* Cape York Welfare Reform Evaluation - FaHCSIA 2012 |
* The rise (and fall?) of Pearson, a 'product of the times' -Crikey- 30th August 2012 |
* Cape Tribulations: Noel Pearson and the Welfare Reform Trial - The Monthly August 2012 |
* Probity of Pearson project under review - Australian Tuesday, July 17, 2012 |
* Pearson denies phantom students cost millions - Australian Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
* Pearson's plea over $5.5m bill rejected - Australian Monday, 25th June 2012 |
* Top teacher stood down over 'ghosts' - Courier Mail- Saturday, June 9, 2012 |
* Djarragun fund error balloons - Australian Thursday, May 31, 2012 |
* Forrest pledged $3m to help Pearson take over Djarragun College - Australian Wednesday, May 30, 2012 |
* Activist slams Cape reformer - Courier Mail- Monday, May 28, 2012 |
* QLD:Indigenous funding wasted, mayors say - AAP - Monday, May 7, 2012 |
* Pearson yet to learn lessons of leadership - by Tony Koch -Weekend Australian - Saturday, 28th April 2012 |
* Pearson family `has record of bullying' - Australian Thursday, 23rd February 2012 |
* Abbott holds race key: Pearson - Australian Friday, February 10, 2012 |
* School open after fraud claims - Australian Tuesday, January 24, 2012 |
* QLD:Troubled Qld indigenous school reopens - AAP - Monday, 23rd January 2012 |
* Enrolment failures attended to, Djarragun insists - Australian 27th December 2011 |
* Police weigh charges on Djarragun `fraud' - Australian 26th December 2011 |
* Pearson tagged `fly-in, fly-out' - Australian Wednesday, 16th November 2011 |
* Wild Rivers Act crushes Aborigines: Pearson - Weekend Australian Saturday, November 5, 2011 |
* QLD:LNP to axe Qld Wild Rivers declarations - AAP - Friday, November 4, 2011 |
* Abbott may be best hope on hot issue . . . on Noel time - COOKTOWN - Age - Monday, 17th October 2011 |
* $25,000 for unfair dismissal - Cairns Post - 28th September, 2011 |
* Djarragun College concerns - Cairns Post - 16th September, 2011 |
* Cape leader has lifeline for indigenous college - Australian Wednesday, 12th September 2011 |
* Dodson lets fly at fellow leaders - by Natasha Robinson Australian December 12, 2008 |
* Crime check charges - Australian Tuesday, 23rd August 2011 |
* Djarragun `rife with nepotism' - Australian Monday, 22nd August 2011 |
* Noel Pearson's policies embraced by white Australia, but how effective are they? - The Conversation 9th August, 2011 |
* Noel Pearson to take control of school - AAP - Tuesday, 12th July 2011 |
* College offered finance lifeline - Cairns Post - Tuesday, 28th June 2011 |
* School sacks staff to pay back money for phantom students - Australian Wednesday, 8th June 2011 |
* Gary Johns's new book, Noel Pearson, The Oz and sonderweg -Crikey- 29th April 2011 |
* State student turnout fails to make the grade - Courier Mail- Saturday, 19th February 2011 |
* Yanner calls for Pearson's portfolio - Courier Mail- Wednesday, 20th October 2010 |
* Noel Pearson not our leader, say wild river men - Age- 30th September 2010 |
* Noel Pearson rings up a wrong number - Sydney Morning Herald- Wednesday, September 8, 2010 |
* Telling whites what they want to hear: Chris Graham on the trouble with Noel Pearson - OVERLAND 200 4 September 2010 |
* Welfare reform is working, Pearson insists - AAP- Wednesday, 14th April 2010 |
* Coalition leads way on land rights, says Pearson - Australian- Wednesday, 31st March 2010 |
* Pearson hits back over ceremony attack - Weekend Australian- Saturday, 20th March 2010 |
* Review: Noel Pearson's Radical Hope - by Guy Rundle Crikey 23rd October 2009 |
* The boy from Hope Vale - by Jon altman Australian Book Review July - August, 2009 |
* Pearson discusses wild rivers laws - the ABC 7.30 Report 15th July 2009 |
* Ban Aboriginal dole until 21, Noel Pearson pleads - by Patricia Karvelas and Padraic Murphy - the Australian 22nd August 2008 |
* Queensland to roll out indigenous welfare reform trial - AAP - 21st December, 2007 |
* Labor accused of selling Cape down the river - by Tony Koch - Australian 14th November 2007 |
* Dodson attacks government's intervention in NT - AAP - Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
* Pearson labelled arrogant and ignorant by TV boss - AAP 31st July 2007 |
* Politics blamed for hasty embrace of Pearson plan - Sydney Morning Herald 16th July 2007 |
* Aboriginal leaders join attacks on Pearson - Australian 12th July 2007 |
* Noel Pearson "drunk with power", says NSW Land Council leader - AAP 9th July 2007 |
* Pearson in `breach of protocol' - Weekend Australian 30th June 2007 |
* Clash of cultures: Aboriginal leader rejects Pearson as 'new messiah' - the Age -30th July 2005 |
* Costello embraces Pearson's radical reforms- By Michael Gordon - the Age 22nd July 2005 |
* Pearson backs Howard's approach to Indigenous affairs - transcript of "Insiders" program - ABCTV 5th June 2005 |
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