Analysis Of Noel Pearson's Speech
The Context
The occasion for this speech was one which might discomfort a less experienced speaker than Noel Pearson. He was invited to address a distinguished academic gathering at the University of Western Sydney. His host was his former history professor, the Chancellor, Professor Derek Schreuder. His topic, inspired by High Court decisions and political statements at the time, was Australian history. In particular, the way Australian history presented the historic relationships between the European settlers and the Aboriginal peoples they had found in the country.
The topic was very much in the news in l996 for two chief reasons, each of which Pearson alludes to.
Firstly, in l992, the High Court of Australia had ruled that the late
The occasion for this speech was one which might discomfort a less experienced speaker than Noel Pearson. He was invited to address a distinguished academic gathering at the University of Western Sydney. His host was his former history professor, the Chancellor, Professor Derek Schreuder. His topic, inspired by High Court decisions and political statements at the time, was Australian history. In particular, the way Australian history presented the historic relationships between the European settlers and the Aboriginal peoples they had found in the country.
The topic was very much in the news in l996 for two chief reasons, each of which Pearson alludes to.
Firstly, in l992, the High Court of Australia had ruled that the late