Gary Foley, whose life-long ongoing struggle for equality is revered in Indigenous Australia, has described Pearson as a “latter-day black Gordon Gecko preaching ‘greed is good’”, while he views Mundine, to whom he is related, as “the white sheep of our family”. Only the bigoted would demand Indigenous politics to be homogeneous, of course, when there are so many divergent black views and approaches. And that is the point here: Abbott takes his advice from such a narrow quarter that attention – public service, thinktank, media and national – is also, inevitably, tightly focused upon the same space.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:20:50 +0000
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