Mission by Noel Pearson child-protection One day the city’s residents

One day the city’s residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations – a factory whistle

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Power Trip:

He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidable campaigner mastered first the unions and then the party

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Mission by Noel Pearson child-protection One day the city’s residentsMission 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 Australias most powerful and influential thinkers and an extraordinary writer. Mission selects the best of Pearsons work to date. There are indelible portraits of political leaders seen close up