The father of Indigenous senator and No campaigner Jacinta Price has revealed how he deals with the public abuse she receives and what he and his wife did to instil confidence in their daughter.
Jacinta Price has built a career as an outspoken critic of many accepted orthodoxies who is willing to tell unpopular truths. However this has frequently made the shadow Indigenous Australians minister the target of abuse, including from other Indigenous leaders.
Asked how he coped with seeing the abuse his daughter received, Mr Price said there had been a time when it had kept him awake at night with anger but that was no longer the case. Jacinta Price has build a career as an outspoken advocate who is prepared to tell unpopular truths. Picture: Kevin Farmer “But I am pretty disturbed by the nonsense that the so-called leaders have come out with. That’s one thing that really bothers me quite a bit more.
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