Noel Pearson: White guilt, victimhood and the quest for a radical centre
I missed this at the time, but Noel Pearson's talk on Big Ideas from a few weeks ago was brilliant; probably the fairest and least despair-inspiring analysis of Indigenous issues I've heard: Link. I recommend it strongly.
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Just listened to it myself and thought it was brilliant. It seems that his views are so controversial as well and lot of people think he is pandering to Howard.
He was so straight forward about the idea of paternalistic policies: don't give money to people who are going to waste it rather than support themselves and their family. It sounds right to me that we should intervene in this case. The hard part is how not to turn it into an exercise of white-fella beating down the black-fella. I think Indigenous Australians need to get in on this and police their own community for something like this to work in the long term.
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