Have many of you experienced the conditions you discuss?
There are difficult problems to solve, and noel seems genuine enough.
its important not to try and set up 2 different levels of society, but the issues need to be addressed. Take AMP's for example...the evidence suggests that its working to reduce violence etc. this is good. Are the comunities ALL in favour of the restrictions.
I'm guessing that many would not have visited Cooktown since the laws came in, lots of homeless people now and beggars etc.
This could be later interpreted as displacing people and separating families.
Myself, I reckon we all could be covered by the same restrictions and regulations. Theres no need to differentiate on the basis of race.

Having read the article by Megan Davis (no relation) I am adding my support to her position, although, there are one or two points that need to be opened up some more and my following observations on these are written as a member of the Kukuyalanji nation from Cape York Peninsula. I was born in Mossman, and even though having been raised elsewhere I continue to communicate with immediate and extended family on 'the Cape'. There is a contrary [albeit quiet] intrinsic view from here that Pearson is not intimate with the central issues of concern. Certainy, not as much as the politicians seem to want to believe. Perhaps this is his skill, knowing what politicians want to hear. When his manifesto "Our Right to Take Responsibility" first appeared, circa 1999, I had read this with anticipation and expectation that here was a black leader who just might have something new, something different to offer. Unfortunately, I found this so called "analysis" to be hollow, a whiteness of the issues, lacking depth and breadth in treatment of these. Like most Australians, I also desire Indigenous Australians [I prefer First Nations people of Australia or First Nations people] to enjoy first class standards across all social indicators. But, while much of the content is not new, Pearson's rhetoric conveys a vitriol towards Indigenous Australians [even if they happen to be surviving on 'the Cape']that makes him unacceptable to be considered as a leader.