Noel Pearson at the Brisbane Writers Festival

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07 October 2009A powerful speech from Cape York Indigenous leader, thinker and activist Noel Pearson.

In his opening address to the Brisbane Writers Festival, Pearson talks about the road to Indigenous advancement, the relationship between self interest and altruism, and how he believes the rights of Aboriginal people in Cape York have been trampled on by government and urban environmentalists.

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