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What a swell guy.Queensland’s top education bureaucrat says Noel Pearson called him an “arse coverer”, “maggot” and “bucket of shit”, as fresh accounts of abusive behaviour by the Indigenous leader have emerged.
And the Queensland education minister, Kate Jones, has backed reports that in 2009 Pearson called her a “fucking white ****”.
A nurse in the remote Cape York town of Coen, who campaigned against the local school’s adoption of an expensive and contentious US remedial program called direct instruction under the banner of GGSA, has claimed Pearson also called her a “fucking white ****”.
Barbara Shephard told the ABC: “He said I was a fucking white **** and an interfering bitch.
“I personally have no respect for him whatsoever. I feel he is a bully. He’s a foul-mouthed bully.”
In 2014 Pearson repeatedly called a senior editor at the Sydney Morning Herald a “****” and told him he would “beat [him] to a pulp”, the newspaper’s then columnist Paul Sheehan wrote.
And a journalist, Tony Koch, wrote in 2012 of Pearson’s furious abuse after a story on Indigenous slaughter of turtles by the Australian’s Sarah Elks.
“Anyone who knows Pearson will understand what that means: he used language so foul it couldn’t be repeated here, leaving the journalist stunned and shaken, before slamming the phone down in her ear,” Koch wrote
Noel Pearson used abusive language, says Queensland's education head
Director general for education says Indigenous leader called him an ‘arse coverer’, ‘maggot’ and ‘bucket of shit’
www.theguardian.com