Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson (born 25 June 1965) is an Aboriginal Australian lawyer, academic, and advocate for Indigenous empowerment. He is known for his work on land rights, welfare reform, and education policy, and for founding organisations such as the Cape York Land Council, Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, Cape York Partnership, and Good to Great Schools Australia.

A prominent public intellectual, Pearson has been a key figure in national debates on constitutional recognition and the 2023 proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, but his views on some topics have been controversial among Indigenous leaders, such as on the 2007 intervention in the Northern Territory, and it has been argued that the large amount of funding provided by various governments to his projects on Cape York have not been entirely successful.

Pearson is known for advocating policies which he refers to as "radical centre", although he has stated that he had given up on this in late 2017. He has been published extensively, including many articles in newspapers (notably in ''The Australian'') and essays that have been published in collections. Provided by Wikipedia