The “healing medicine” for remote Indigenous communities is jobs as “nothing will change” as long as people are on welfare, says Cape York Partnership’s Strategic Advisor Noel Pearson.
“If we’re going to rebuild those communities – if you want a
healing instrument for these communities … the healing medicine is jobs.”
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