Mission : essays, speeches & ideas / Noel Pearson.
Publication details: Melbourne, VIC : Black Inc, 2021.Description: 599 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781760643157
- 1760643157 (hardback)
- Pearson, Noel, 1965- -- Speeches, addresses, etc
- Political activists -- Anecdotes
- Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- Aboriginal Australians -- Public welfare
- Australia -- Politics and government
- AUS essays & speeches (Australia)
- Cultural, ethnic & media studies (Australia)
- All Australian Indigenous Material (Australia)
- 323.119915 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 323.119 PEA | Available | 063389 |
Mission traces a life of politics, ideas and inspiring words. Whether he is recalling his boyhood in Hope Vale, Queensland, making the case for Indigenous recognition, or evoking a reconciled, multicultural Australia, Noel Pearson confirms he is one of Australia's most powerful and influential thinkers - and an extraordinary writer. Mission selects the best of Pearson's work to date. There are indelible portraits of political leaders seen close up - Keating, Rudd, Whitlam, Turnbull and more. There is Pearson's brilliant exploration of a Voice to Parliament, which led eventually to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. And there are acute analyses - of passive welfare; of the fate of the Labor Party; of identity politics, good and bad; and of education and the role of a great teacher.The volume also contains a remarkable new extended title essay, in which Pearson reflects on his life and work so far. Mission is honest, provocative and utterly original.