Australian Story The Mission (Season 2, Episode 35)
TV Episode | 27 min | Documentary, Biography

Australian Story

The Mission (Season 2, Episode 35)

TV Episode | 27 min | Documentary, Biography

The story of David Byrne is one of the great untold stories of recent Australian history. David Byrne is the former Augustinian monk and Liberal Party politician, who in partnership with Noel Pearson, created the Cape York Land Council and...See moreThe story of David Byrne is one of the great untold stories of recent Australian history. David Byrne is the former Augustinian monk and Liberal Party politician, who in partnership with Noel Pearson, created the Cape York Land Council and changed the face of black politics in Australia. Until now Byrne has firmly refused to tell his own story but on Australian Story he recounts, for the first time, the details of his amazing journey from the monastery, through Parliament House and onto the wilderness of Cape York. In part, it's a great adventure story ... complete with hardship, strandings, encounters with crocodiles, culminating in Byrne's yacht running aground off Thursday Island. But at the heart of the story is the unlikely friendship between David Byrne and Noel Pearson .. the friendship that was to become the foundation for the immensely influential Cape York Land Council. Written by Australian Story See less

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David Byrne Self Self See fewer	Australian Story (1996)
Noel Pearson Self Self See fewer	Take Heart: Songlines (2025)

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