Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s first speech to parliament underscored the challenge for the government. auspol
Conservative firebrand Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has made a furious, impassioned entrance into the Senate, railing against “false narratives” of racism and calling the push for an Indigenous Voice to parliament a symbolic gesture that could divide black and white Australia.
“This government has yet to demonstrate how this proposed Voice will deliver practical outcomes and unite rather than drive a wedge further between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia,” Price said.The Uluru Statement of the Heart, which has been endorsed by hundreds of Indigenous leaders, calls for the creation of an Indigenous Voice to parliament.
Price is one of 11 Indigenous Australians in the 47th parliament, the most diverse in the nation’s history. Her views could be influential inside the Coalition partyroom, where there is no consensus position. Opposition leader Peter Dutton has not ruled out bipartisanship on constitutional recognition but wants Labor to provide detail on the proposal, while Liberal backbencher Andrew Bragg has long-backed a constitutionally enshrined Voice.
“My pride in commencing my formal role in this House of Representatives is tinged with sadness. I am essentially becoming part of the same government which designated both my parents as wards of the State, the ‘State’ being the Commonwealth of Australia,” she said. Earlier on Wednesday, One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson stormed out of the chamber as Senate President Sue Lines gave the official acknowledgment of Country recognising the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people as traditional custodians of the Canberra area.
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