Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is set to front the National Press Club as the Voice to Parliament referendum looms.
In four weeks Australians will head to the polls to vote on whether to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to the constitution.
We will be providing live digital coverage of her speech which will also be broadcast on ABC News Channel.'Long history' of Indigenous contributionSenator Price says despite "racial stereotyping", Aboriginal Australians are not a single group and have "often disagreed on many political positions". "And we have done it in different areas, in different fields, with different approaches and different skills.
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