Senator Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price, an Australian politician from the Northern Territory since 2022, a member of the Country Liberal Party, a politically conservative party operating in the Northern Territory affiliated with the national Coalition. She is currently serving as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs.
Price is also a singer/songwriter and has worked in children's television. She is of Aboriginal Australian heritage — the daughter of Warlpiri community leader and former politician Bess Price — and Anglo-Celtic heritage from her father.
Price's activism and views focus primarily on issues faced by aboriginal communities, and she is a vocal advocate for conservative aboriginal politics in Australia. She has highlighted the high rates of domestic and other violence in Aboriginal communities, and advocates for a "law and order" approach. She is critical of "welfare dependency" and "opportunistic collectivism". She opposed the proposed but soundly defeated Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
A referendum to establish the racist Voice was held on 14 October 2023. Fortunately, it was unsuccessful, with a majority of voters both nationwide and in all states voting against the proposal. Had it succeeded, the Australian Constitution would have recognized Indigenous Australians in the document by prescribing the Voice, which would have made representations to the Parliament of Australia and executive government on matters relating to Indigenous Australians. The government would then have designed the specific form of the Voice, which would then have been implemented via legislation passed by Parliament.
Brilliant speech - applies to Canada as well.
One of many astute observations by the Senator. I paraphrase: By constitutionalizing the Voice, you enshrine in perpetuity the opportunity for the Aboriginal Industry to continue the victim narrative that does nothing for the ordinary Indigenous citizen on the reserve or among the marginalized anywhere in the country. Something similar has already been done in Canada by federal support for the AFN.