Up from the Mission: Selected Writings – Noel Pearson

Posted on June 20th, 2009 by Jarvis in Non-Fiction, Politics

Director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership Noel Paerson life is chartered from his early days as a native title lawyer to his position today as one of Australia’s most influential figures in Up From The Mission

This is writing of great passion and power, which introduces a fascinating man and a compelling writer. Many of the pieces included have been hard to find until now. Gathered together in a cohesive, broadranging book, they show a key Australian thinker coming into being.

Up from the Mission: Selected Writings by Noel Pearson, ISBN 9781863954280

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Pearson evokes his early life in Hopevale, Queensland. He includes sections of his epoch-making essay Our Right to Take Responsibility, which exposed the trap of ‘passive welfare’ and proposed new ways forward. There are pieces on the apology; on Barack Obama and black leadership; on Australian party politics – Keating, Howard and Rudd; and on alcoholism, despair and what can be done to mend Aboriginal communities that have fallen apart.

‘Noel Pearson is beyond classification as a political theorist and commentator: for his historical sense, plain style and power of argument, he simply knocks spots off everybody else in the country.’ – Clive James

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